Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:08:19PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
the libXfont.so library from X11R7.0 has a new feature: built-in
"cursor" and "fixed" fonts. Unfortunately, due to what I consider to be
a bug, the X server doesn't provide a way to add these fonts to the font
path by default. A simple sed solves this. Thus, there is no longer any
need to install font files for those two required X core fonts.
What is the recommended way of using them then?
Attached is a patch against the LiveCD buildscripts that implements this
modification and makes the /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory non-existent.
Should this be applied?
Probably. I would like to hear what is the suggested method for using
this new functionality, first.
This functionality is supposed to be used automatically with the KDrive
server. I have already mailed to xorg developers, and got this
meaningless reply:
... libXfont is not only for xserver/xorg. Have you ever considered
that it could maybe used that way for, well, KDrive?
But the never-defined KDRIVESERVER macro is not in libXfont, it is in
xorg-server, that's why I think that the reply is meaningless.
Anyway, patching xorg and including the string "built-ins" in the font
path (or setting the default font path to this string, as I did) works
perfectly: the required "cursor" and "fixed" fonts are available from
within libXfont itself.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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