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On Monday 12 January 2004 23:22, David Gethings wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up
> > fonts. Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and
> > specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts
> > in media-fonts as well as a few others and added all dirs to local.conf.
> > However, there is a ~30 second pause on the startup of each application
> > with this configuration. Adding them to XF86Config instead gives a ~30
> > second pause at the start up of the X server, which is not quite as bad
> > but still frustrating. Anybody got lots of fonts and has solved these
> > problems?
>
> I thought this is what xfs (X Font Server) was for. emerge xfs then add
> it to the rc.d (rc-update add xfs default).
>
> The first time you start it has to trawl the font dirs, but then it
> generates a cache. It only updates the cache when you add new fonts. So
> generally it is a lot quicker.
>
> Then you config X to use xfs. I've just realised I don't have X configed
> to use xfs so I'm about to hunt to find out.
xfs is included in xfree. you should just need to run "/etc/init.d/xfs start".
however, does that have any issues with fonts that use fontconfig? i believe
xfs has been depracated in favour of fontconfig...
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Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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