Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Trying to address <http://bugs.debian.org/563250> (xvile appearance
>> wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi.  Alas:
>>
>>	$ xmessage -fn lucidasans-10 It was the best of times
>>	Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans-10" to type FontStruct
>>	$ xlsfonts | grep lucida
>>	$
>>
>> Restarting X makes the font show up.
[...]
> Not really.  Run xset fp rehash after installing fonts, there's no way
> for update-fonts-dir to know which (possibly remote) X server may want
> to use the new fonts.

Perhaps this could be documented somewhere, or it could be
automatically done by the calling maintainer script for the local X
server?  The problem is still present: after installing X fonts on a
pretty ordinary setup, they are not available for use.  Most new users
are not going to know about "xset fp rehash".