Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted
Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 16:06:44 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 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:
[...]
>>>> $ xlsfonts | grep lucida
>>>> $
[...]
>> 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".
>
> They're also not going to be using xmessage, and client-side fonts are
> immediately picked up by fontconfig/xft/... on install. So I think this
> is a non-issue.
That would be a reason not to package xfonts-100dpi at all, right?
I was using xmessage and xlsfonts to debug. The actual affected
program was xvile. I can imagine users running into this problem with
xterm as well.
Should I reassign this to xfonts-100dpi where it can be ignored until
someone has time for it, or to debhelper (dh_installfonts) which is
probably the right place to fix it?
Thanks for your help,
Jonathan
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