Re: [Xpert]Builtin font path fallback

2002-11-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
KP Should I stick these into the regular server so that it will never again 
KP fail to start due to a lack of fonts?

Yes.

Juliusz
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Re: [Xpert]Builtin font path fallback

2002-11-21 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:54:56PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
 Kdrive uses a special font path 'built-ins' to handle the problem of 
 bringing up the X server when the regular font path is hosed.  This
 special font path element has four fonts compiled right in, so it need 
 never touch the disk.  Both 'fixed' and 'cursor' are always available, 
 along with 5x7 and 5x8 for some historical reason.
 
 Should I stick these into the regular server so that it will never again 
 fail to start due to a lack of fonts?

That would be my vote. at least for fixed and cursor. 5x{7,8} are
a bit small. Perhaps they wouldn't be at 800x600 or lower resolutions.

Kurt
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