Re: default fonts and the x server
Kevin wrote:
>Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the
>archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer.
>
>AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently
^^ That's true, .Z it handles well.
>decided to start compressing them. There is a workaround and it
>involves something like doing 'MAKEFONTDIR' in each of the target
>directories.
>
Not quite, I wonder if AccelX 3.1 aka AX will handle .pcf.gz files...
OK, I'm back in business now, what I had to do is:
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cd to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ and then to the misc, 75dpi and 100dpi subdirs
respectively.
In each subdir doing a:
gzip -d *.gz
compress *.pcf (we want _some_ compression at least ^_^)
mkfontdir
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That's it. Semi-happy camper again, lost 2 hours over this...
Dewa,
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