Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (23/12/03 09:02), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2003-12-22 18:07:53 -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
> > 	Just guessing, but probably you have both the FontPath and the font
> > server defined in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4).  Use only one.
> 
> I have the following in "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4":
> 
> Section "Files"
>         FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
>         # 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"
> EndSection
> 
> But I thought that this was just for bitmap fonts. So, where's the
> problem?
I'm not sure whether this is relevant but I found Rob Weir's font guide,
posted here a while back, very useful:

http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt

HTH

Clive
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