On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 07:47:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Not an option in the case of xfstt. X servers don't speak TTF yet > > (yet..) But still, I think it's possible to add some delay or re-arrange > > things with the runlevels to fix this. > > Uh, WHAT program exactly is dying so hard because it can't get TTF fonts > that it kills the X server? > > As long as everyday, regular X fonts are available, the X server should be > able to start up fine. xfstt goes into Fontpath as a font server. You can I suppose use xset in ~/.xsession but that's hardly useful for globally available fonts. > > Actually it DID fix it on my box amazingly enough. But then, my problem > > is just that my system is short on RAM and processor power (and disk > > space, video memory, etc, etc, etc) => > > I won't say that people SHOULDN'T try tweaking the run levels on a > per-system basis, just that I don't think I can accomplish anything by > changing the defaults; systems are too different. I've got beginnings of ideas here but I won't have them for a few days until I have time to think clearly, which will be after I've finished reading email, writing email to the people I need to (mostly LinuxWorld event related stuff) and essentially just getting caught up. If someone hasn't come up with more interesting ideas before then, I'll post something probably. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB778EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! To boldly go where no bunch of geeks have gone before :) --Joel Klecker
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