Hmm... Yes, this is one of the most unstable parts - both in Redhat & in
Mandrake...
In KDE for example - sometimes asking to changing the fixed fonts kill the X
font server..
Hetz
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> > Are you talking about SGI's XFS?
> >
> > We have here at work a machine with Redhat 7 and XFS with it - not a single
> > problem (well, there is one - it seems that Star Office is crashing with it),
> > and it runs perfectly with XFree 4.x
>
> xfs , as in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
>
> X Fonts Server
>
> On redhats and mandrakes, X can't live long without xfs up, as all the
> fonts are supplied by the fonts server.
>
> (you get the strange error message "can't find font 'fixed'", and then X
> gives up and crashes)
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
> =================================================================
> To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
> echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]