> I think I saw something about this in other news groups, but could not find
> any more info. Do you know more about it?
>
Take a look at XFree86 xpert discussion list archives. A guy once posted a
patch some time ago to be tested. As I am somewhat lazy, and coward, I did
not tested it and I decided to wait for a new realease of XFree86.
>
> Uh? I don't get it. What do you mean I can get my fonts back?
>
On fly, or, without rebooting.
>
> Actually any application, gnome, wine, netscape, etc. will kill xfs if you
> try some fonts. If you want to reproduce this, do the following:
No, thanks. You know, I'm pretty lazy today.
>
> 1. Open a terminal window and execute the following script:
> while true; do clear;ps ax|grep xfs;sleep 1;done
>
> 2. In the same desktop (so you can see the status of xfs), open the gnome
> font selector, and begin poking at all fonts until you crash xfs. A
> particular encoding that I have found to crash xfs almost always is the
> ASCII-0 under any windows font. I think that all of the default fonts
> (misc, 75dpi, 100dpi, Type1, Speedo, and mdk) do not crash it.
>
Yes, I think that it has something to do with True Type fonts. Selecting
fonts imported from windows in DrakfFont also crashes xfs. But if you have
the path for other default fonts in XF86Config, and not only "unix / :-1",
you will still have these fonts avaliable. I discovere it because once I had
only the path for misc fonts...
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