On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
Right, but 99.99999% of the setups have the X client and server on the same box, so the assumption they're the same box is usually valid.
Yea, I understand. We also have to work properly when people run it remotely, 'cuz that's part of X11's capability (and I tend to use that).
Last time I dealt with a problem like this, I had to rebuild the font database files (ala berkley DB) by hand. Wasn't sure if X has advanced in 15 years.
They still have the old methods of loading fonts and setting fontpaths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (used to be X11R6.conf I think). They also have methods of running a font server so you can serve up more fonts, including truetype fonts. I think you can run one fontserver on a network and have all of the X11 boxes use it. The only thing new about the above is the truetype support, and I'm not sure whether I have that working/configured on any of my boxes. I think there's also another method of dealing with fonts that some of the newer widget sets use. FWIW: I checked in changes to CVS a little while ago that set the default font to "fixed", so if a font that you selected isn't available, at least you'll get something. Earlier postings from me today detailed which packages on OpenSuSE-11.0 to get rid of in order to get down to one "fixed" fontalias instead of two. Or you can change /etc/X11/xorg.conf as Tom suggested to get rid of the fontpath to the cyrillic font. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
