Re: temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 14:32, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +0000, dave selby wrote:
> >Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the
> >number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped
> > with fonts.
> >
> >Can someone clarify a point with me ...
> >
> >when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case
> >
> >
> >Section "Files"
> > FontPath "unix/:7101" # true type
> > server FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font
> > server
>
> I always comment out those lines (though my setup only has the 7100 entry.
>
> > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
> > these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>
> I re-order those along with removing the Type1, Speedo, and cyrillic
> entries. I add my truetype dir and put it first in the list, followed my
> 75dpi, then 100dpi, and finally misc. I no longer have entries for the
>
> :unscaled fonts (could be my version of X and the current debconf settings.
> :
> ># paths to search for fonts
> >catalogue =
> >/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/1
> >00dpi/:unscaled,
> > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
> >/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dp
> >i/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefonts/
> >
> >so am I right in thinking that server unix:/7100 will find the fonts
> > anyway regardless of what I do with xset -fp ? This seems to be what is
> > happening.
>
> Yes, it will. If it doesn't find any, it falls back to the directories
> listed above.
>
> >So is there any tempory way of removing font directories short of removing
> >them in XF86config-4 AND /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config for xfs ?
>
> For a long time, that's what I seemingly HAD to do to get it to work the
> way *I* wanted it to. That method still works for me though it may no
> longer be necessary.
>
> Regards
> Hall
Thanks for the confirmation, I thought I was out on a lim, You say you dont
use unix/:7101 as a server for true type yet truetype works, without the
server ? I must give this a go .... the less servers the better.
Dave
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