Re: xorg and fonts
On 2008-12-06 20:31 +0100, lee wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> It uses a compile-time path, we have to UTSL to find it out. The Debian
>> package is configured with (sorry for the overly long line)
>>
>> --with-default-font-path="/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
>> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>
> UTSL?
"Use the source, Luke" -- see http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UTSL.html.
> xset q says:
>
> Font Path:
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
>
> So what does it mean when man xorg.conf says that "the server falls
> back to the compiled-in default font path" in case no font path is
> specified in xorg.conf? In xorg.conf, I have specified:
>
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/util/"
Do these directories all exist? Non-existent entries will be removed
from the font path.
> Now some font paths seem to come from somewhere else than from the
> configuration. What happens with the compiled-in defaults when a font
> path is specified in the configuration?
They are merged, with the font path in the configuration coming first.
See /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/NEWS.Debian.gz for details.
> And look at the path: Three entries are doubled (100dpi/:unscaled,
> misc, Type1),
Because they are in the xorg.conf _and_ in the default path.
> one entry seems to be incorrect (100dpi),
Why should it be incorrect?
> and one entry
> might come from the compiled-in defaults.
The /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType directory, I
suppose.
> Two of the paths I specified
> seem to be invalid --- if there are no fonts in those directories,
> what do they have to do under /usr/share/X11/fonts? What a mess ...
It was _you_ who specified them, and the X server just corrected that
misconfiguration by deleting non-existent directories. The entry
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/"
only makes sense if the xfonts-encodings is installed, for instance.
> Is it just me, or is Debian getting more and more sloppy with things
> like this?
Apart from the bad xorg.conf manpage, I don't see anything wrong.
Sven
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