Am 17.11.2010 12:13, schrieb Stefan Dirsch:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:11:13AM +0100, walter harms wrote:
>> I have some news about the font problem:
>>
>> background: we use for some tools the Xforms-toolkit and found that with 
>> OS11.3
>> some fonts have the wrong size.
>>
>> The problem in our case is:
>> FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>>
>> wenn adding a "files" with this content to xorg-xonf.d everything works fine
>>
>> the wired think is that these path now shows up two times with "xset q".
>> so far we are confused.
> 
> So it works with the following font path order:
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/URW/,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,built-ins
> 
> I guess that then the fonts in 75dpi are preferred by the xforms toolkit. The
> changed behaviour is a bit weird since we had such a static font path order in
> xorg.conf (created by SaX2) since about a decade.
> 
>   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
>   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> 
> One workaround would be to start the xforms-toolkit applications via a
> wrapper, which adjusts the font path first
> 
>   xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled; xset fp rehash
> 
> But since this affects also all other applications, which are still using X11
> server side rendering, you can add this line also to your ~/.xinitrc.
> 

yep,
what is realy strange is that the entry appears double, and it is working.
The behavior is reproduceable with a OS11.3 install but not with a live-cd.

re,
 wh


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