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.
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