On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Peter Finderup Lund wrote: > xfree86 developers: could the X server be made to look in the obvious > places for fonts in case everything else fails? Or have the "fixed" font > compiled in, somehow? That should cut down the number of bug reports by > end-users a good deal (10-20% ?).
I believe that the fixed fonts are about to be compiled into the main server, as they already are in Kdrive; I think that this is a good idea. However, although I think it will cut down the number of end-user complaints to this list, I'm not sure that it will make users happier. With this fix, if they have a broken font setup the server will start, but they will not get the fonts that they are expecting. They will be unhappy, but I think that fewer people will complain. Looking in the obvious places isn't so easy, because the obvious places to look are "every directory inside /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", but some directories in there are not appropriate some of the time (it depends which font modules you have installed). We could try to automate setting the font path if the config file doesn't define one at all, but I don't like the idea of the server guessing where to look if the configured path is bad. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
