Hi,
great to see replies from the developers, it makes one feel like it's
really worth putting some effort into discussing the distro to make it
better. Thanks.
On 8 Jun 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
>
> > 1) True Type. Even though I think I checked every TType-related package during
> > installation, and xfs has the correct TType directory in its load path, the
> > fonts still don't show up anywhere. This kind of bummed me, since "out of the
> > box" TType support was one of the big things touted in the Mandrake homepage.
> > I've tried to fix it but I'm not too sure even where to start. Any
> > suggestions appreciated.
>
> Well here and all computers i have tested i didn't find any
> problem. The things to check :
>
> 1. if
> /usr/sbin/chkfontpath --list, give
>
> 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts
>
> or any other number.
>
> 2. if you have the file :
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/fonts.dir
>
> if not, create it with :
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/mkttfdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/
>
> Check with kfontselector or gfontsel normally you have to see it
> (begin with macromedia).
>
I did check with chkfontpath --list and I *do* have
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts loaded properly. Also, the fonts.dir file
*is* there, so I'm kind of puzzled as to why I can't see any of the fonts.
I used the preview ftview utility to look at the .ttf files in
/usr/../ttfonts and they seem ok.
A related ttype fonts question: my system is a Win95/linux double boot in
which I mount my C: drive under linux as /win95 (vfat fs). Since in
C:/windows/../fonts there's a ton of .ttf files, I was wondering if it's
possible (once I get ttype working in Linux to begin with) to have xfs use
also all of these ttype fonts.
Or is there some subtle incompatibility in the way Microso~1 implements
TType which prevents this? If it's possible, I could just move all my .ttf
files to the C: drive so that they are both accessible under windows95 and
under Linux, which I think would be nice.
Anyway, I might just scrap the whole thing and do a clean install to see
if it improves things. Now that Mandrake has klyx and XEmacs (the two big
things I had to add onto RedHat by hand) it doesn't bother me too much to
rerun an install from scratch.
> > 3) Power management for laptops. Another "out of box" goodie that didn't work,
> > and which I was looking forward to. Mandrake's website touts "- Power-saving
> > management control under KDE - laptop control under KDE", so I figured these
> > would be no brainers. I later found the two necessary packages and put them in
> > by hand, but same comment as in (3) applies.
>
>
> what package excatly.
I don't have my laptop here so I don't remember exactly, but one was
klaptop???.rpm (which added the laptop category to the KDE control panel)
and the other was kdpms???.rpm (which added DPMS to the desktop section of
the KDE control panel). If this is not enough I can get you the exact
names.
>
>
> > Also, it would be nice to update to the new version (21.x) which is
> > a little more modular.
>
> i have already make the package, the only problem i have split all
> section in a rpm package, the total give more than 80 package :-((
Suggestion: how about grouping the 80 into a few packages by topic?
Something like base (xemacs itself) plus text-related (text, TeX,
spelling,...), coding-related (C-modes, debugging,...), internet (mail,
news, w3), etc?
You might bring it down to 5 or 6 total packages this way, and people
could select which ones they need easily (they can always remove
individual lisp modules by hand if from usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/...
if they don't need them.)
Cheers,
Fernando.
