jason byrne said:
> FWIW - I've some similar tips up for a while at > http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jbyrne/linux.htm if you'd like to compare notes. Cool, it looks pretty interesting. I'll add a link. > I just looked at the tips you mentioned at the Mandrake and SuSE sites... and > I believe they indirectly left out a couple of subtle items WRT fonts.scale, > fonts.dir, and encodings.dir - > ttmkfdir -o|> fonts.scale generates fonts.scale > 'mkfontdir /some/path' generates a fonts.dir file > 'mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/encodings' will create encodings.dir and > fonts.dir files in one shot. Hmm. good point. I do know that Red Hat's xfs startup script will update caches at boot-time, so Mandrake's may also. SuSE's probably doesn't. I'll note it. > Slightly off-topic ;-) - one important beginning for a number of users is > grabbing/installing a recent version of XFree86 (preferably 4.1.0)... sounds reasonable. > and it's generally a good idea to compile X on your own machine. Hmm... I'll note that, but I'm aiming a bit lower, when it comes to the howto's target audience. ;) Thanks, --j. _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
