Re: Abiword font problem. SOLVED!
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:58:25AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs
> > > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?!
> >
> > That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 modules, and have the
> > appropriate FontPath entries in XF86Config-4, you can do without xfs.
> >
> > However, if you do use xfs, you can dink around with your fonts without
> > having to restart X itself - you only need to restart the X font server.
> > I use xfs for this reason.
>
> Actually, you can (allegedly) change the font path for an already-running
> server via xset, without restarting it.
Yep. "xset +fp /some/dir/with/fonts/" adds a font path, and "xset fp
rehash" reindexes the font paths in case you added or removed fonts from
them.
Peter De Wachter
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