Why do we still use xfs on Mandrake? I thought it was obsolete after XFree 4.1. I removed it from my 8.1 box and have the font paths in XFree86.Config-4. It works great.
I did that once; didn't like the way any of my apps looked, especially the GNOME ones. And I made my xftconfig as close to the fs/config file as I could. It's not a HUGE deal, so I live with it.
