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Re: Why are so many people using font servers?



On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:47:20PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> wrote:
> I was under the impression that xfs is still needed whereas the
> truetype font server xfstt is superfluous as of XFree86 version
> 4.x.

To do what?  If you add FontPath entries to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4,
then X can see the fonts directly...

> But I also find the font configuration issues under Debian
> terribly confusing.

I would've thought adding another layer of indirection would just make
it more complicated.  At it's simplest, just add FontPath lines to
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and, um, er, that's it.  Unless you're using sid
with fontconfigified programs, where you have to add one more directory
to /etc/fonts/local.conf.  Doesn't seem to hard, if you're already using
Debian.

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