Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

2006-07-16 Thread Fredrik Tolf 
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:07 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
 On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 23:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
  Fredrik Tolf wrote:
   My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs
   the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the
   new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs
   affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are
   affected.
   
   I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server
   itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).
  
  Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist?
 
 Nope, and I never had it. Should it exist? In that case, whence should
 it point?

To follow up on this, the problem turned out to be the lack of CJK
fonts. When I installed font-{jis,isas,daewoo}-misc, it started working
just fine.

Fredrik Tolf


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Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

2006-07-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz 
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
 Hi List!
 
 I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable.
 However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I
 haven't found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm
 turning to the list now.
 
 
 My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs
 the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the
 new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs
 affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are
 affected.
 
 I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server
 itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).

Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist?

 There is also another, unrelated and rather minor, problem: The 8x16
 fixed font seems to have disappeared in 7.0. Does anyone know where it
 went?

Try font-schumacher-misc or font-sony-misc.

Thanks,
Donnie



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[gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

2006-07-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf 

Hi List!

I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable. 
However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I haven't 
found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm turning to 
the list now.



My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs 
the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the 
new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs 
affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are 
affected.


I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server 
itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).


Also, when I'm starting xterms from other machines, they don't seem to 
care at all, so I'm guessing that the xterm on my own machine is looking 
for some fonts for which the parameters have somehow changed in 7.0 (I'm 
not very familiar with the X font system, so I don't really know what 
could have changed). It might be related that I am able to view CJK 
characters in the local xterms, but not the remote ones (they display `??' 
instead of one double-width character).



There is also another, unrelated and rather minor, problem: The 8x16 
fixed font seems to have disappeared in 7.0. Does anyone know where it went?



Thanks for reading!

Fredrik Tolf
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