Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org: On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to TrueType, but is in theory an open standard, so its become a pretty popular font set. Xorg just includes, by default, a list of such popular font packages (it also includes FreeType, a couple different dpis, etc.) If I were to install OTF which package should I emerge? dev-libs/libotf-0.9.6 ? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
On 4/9/2009 11:27 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/4/8 Mike Edenfieldkut...@kutulu.org: On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to TrueType, but is in theory an open standard, so its become a pretty popular font set. Xorg just includes, by default, a list of such popular font packages (it also includes FreeType, a couple different dpis, etc.) If I were to install OTF which package should I emerge? dev-libs/libotf-0.9.6 ? There are a couple of OpenType font packages in portage but they mostly are alternative language fonts. Currently most of the font packages that have been converted to OpenType are commercial, like the Adobe professional fonts. As far as OTF support, I'm pretty sure it's already built in to any recent version of the freetype library and pango/Qt. You shouldn't need to install anything more to use OTF fonts, you just have to find the OTF fonts :)
[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
Hi All, With my new xorg almost there from a configuration perspective I can see these warnings now in my log: (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted I am not sure if this is good, bad, or indifferent. I can guess that from a security perspective it's good, but I have no understanding what it means from a performance/functional perspective. Also, I am getting this message: (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. Anything recommended to do here? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
On 4/8/2009 2:02 PM, Mick wrote: Hi All, With my new xorg almost there from a configuration perspective I can see these warnings now in my log: (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted These are common and shouldn't be causing any problems. I'm not completely clear why X is trying to do what it's doing but those functions are used to manage process groups that relate processes for signalling purposes. Since X is clearly still working, these failures should be harmless. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. This is also completely harmless. It just means X has this path in its default list of font paths, but you don't have those fonts installed, so it's taking it out of its list. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/8/2009 2:02 PM, Mick wrote: (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted These are common and shouldn't be causing any problems. I'm not completely clear why X is trying to do what it's doing but those functions are used to manage process groups that relate processes for signalling purposes. Since X is clearly still working, these failures should be harmless. OK, thanks. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. This is also completely harmless. It just means X has this path in its default list of font paths, but you don't have those fonts installed, so it's taking it out of its list. Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to TrueType, but is in theory an open standard, so its become a pretty popular font set. Xorg just includes, by default, a list of such popular font packages (it also includes FreeType, a couple different dpis, etc.)
