Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MM> Sure, got that. But on the other hand I don't exactly know what MM> could eat up ressources in the font serving. Meaning what MM> performance gains can be expected by using a font server. I can MM> only understand that using a font server is useful for MM> adminitration purposes, so you can cen

[paolo.pumilia@est.it: Re: xfree 4.0.2 refuses connection]

2001-01-04 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from "Paolo M. Pumilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Paolo M. Pumilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: xfree 4.0.2 refuses connection Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:53:19 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Brad Keryan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > In addition, rasterising fonts takes some time. If your desktop > machine is very slow, you're better off running a font server on a > faster machine. Also, the X server blocks while rasterizing fonts internally (at least it didn't with XFree86 3.3

Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BK> Also, the X server blocks while rasterizing fonts internally (at least it BK> didn't with XFree86 3.3.x; I'm not sure about 4.0.x), which makes the BK> computer seem to hang when using a new font. When computing metrics, actually. And yes, this is still true in 4.*, although the TrueType back

can not install xlibs

2001-01-04 Thread Ron Jones
Hi, dpkg is choking on xlibs_4.0.2-1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 321 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1167kB of archiv

Re: can not install xlibs

2001-01-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
This isn't a problem with xlibs, just a change WRT X policy kind of. Basically your fix is to find your xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb, probably in /var/cache/apt/archives. Then run: dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb You also might want to check the files in knews. If dpkg -L knews shows th

Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MM> Sure, got that. But on the other hand I don't exactly know what MM> could eat up ressources in the font serving. Meaning what MM> performance gains can be expected by using a font server. I can MM> only understand that using a font server is useful for MM> adminitration purposes, so you can ce

[paolo.pumilia@est.it: Re: xfree 4.0.2 refuses connection]

2001-01-04 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from "Paolo M. Pumilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Paolo M. Pumilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: xfree 4.0.2 refuses connection Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:53:19 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Brad Keryan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > In addition, rasterising fonts takes some time. If your desktop > machine is very slow, you're better off running a font server on a > faster machine. Also, the X server blocks while rasterizing fonts internally (at least it didn't with XFree86 3.

Re: truetype XF4.0x

2001-01-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BK> Also, the X server blocks while rasterizing fonts internally (at least it BK> didn't with XFree86 3.3.x; I'm not sure about 4.0.x), which makes the BK> computer seem to hang when using a new font. When computing metrics, actually. And yes, this is still true in 4.*, although the TrueType bac

can not install xlibs

2001-01-04 Thread Ron Jones
Hi, dpkg is choking on xlibs_4.0.2-1: ron@quark:~$ sudo apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 321 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1167kB of archives. Aft

Re: can not install xlibs

2001-01-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
This isn't a problem with xlibs, just a change WRT X policy kind of. Basically your fix is to find your xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb, probably in /var/cache/apt/archives. Then run: dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb You also might want to check the files in knews. If dpkg -L knews shows t