Re: Help: xfs-xtt crash when try to use Arphic TTF
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:21:18AM +0800, Henry Jen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have problem to use Arphic TTF. I believe I installed them correctly,
> when type
> $xfd -fn '-default-ming-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-big5-0'
> the xfs-xtt crashed, you can not see the process any more by 'px -ax'.
> I can not start any other programx in X.
>
> Does anybody meet the same problem? Ideas?
My guess: You're using "startx" instead of "xdm", correct? :-)
When you run startx, you need to add "-deferglyphs 16", like so:
$ startx -- -deferglyphs 16
Otherwise, X would try to load the ENTIRE font with all 14000+ Chinese
glyphs into memory at once. This causes xfs-xtt to crash, and since X
can't find the font server, it can no longer request any fonts to be
displayed, hence no new programs may be started.
There are discussions on adding "-deferglyphs 16" by default to X in a
future release. This is already the default for "xdm", but not yet for
startx.
Hope this helps,
Anthony
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