On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 02:40:27PM -0400, Rob French wrote: > Hm. What about programs that are compiled against an older version of > xlibs? Might they still require access to the font server to get TT > fonts? That's a very good question, which I don't know the answer to. However, what percentage of `normal' Debian users are running old statically-linked X applications? Not many, I bet. > I use X4.2 and originally I didn't use the font server. However, for > some reason I started using it recently despite the fact that I > "shouldn't need to." I think I was using Bibletime and for some reason > I was getting the Greek fonts that I'd installed. Hmm, ok. Did you add the necessary FontPath line to your XF86Config-4? I'd guess it'd at least be a `wishlist' bug if a package setup the font server but not X itself to see the new fonts. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Hacker analyzer Taiwan bomb Echelon Ft. Meade analyzer spy
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