gnome 2 uses fontconfig instead, you may check out
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf (in RH 8)
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:11:46AM -0500, Jesse Hutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been doing some research and experimenting a little bit with
> different configurations lately in an effort to try to get these fonts in
> X under control. In the process I've made a relatively surprising
> discovery, namely that fonts look better if they are served up in xfree86
> than if I configure xfs to exclusively handle fonts.
>
> My test scenario consists of enabling only these fontpaths in XF86Config-4
> and commenting out the local font servers unix/:7100 and unix/:7110 (I'm
> using XFree86-4.2.1-6 from debian unstable, btw):
>
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscalled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>
> Then I tried using xfs with the same fontpaths, while commenting out these
> in XF86Config-4. On my system, these fonts look *remarkably* better when
> I don't use xfs--that is when I just whatever font server is internal to
> xfree86. Is there anyone that can explain why this is so?
>
> Another thing I noticed is that the fonts in Mozilla, my test application
> of choice, get uglier when I uncomment these two lines in XF86Config-4.
>
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>
> I've tried allowing xfs-xtt to serve up my TrueType and CID directories
> as well, but I get the same result--uglier fonts in Mozilla. Is this just
> because those unscaled fonts in /misc, /75dpi, and /100dpi are cleaner
> under X, and when X is forced to use them only, everything looks good?
> I'm pretty confused.
>
> Just for completeness, I'm running Gnome2.2 while doing all this, and my
> font config section at the moment is this:
>
> Section "Files"
> # FontPath "unix/:7110" # local font
> server
> # FontPath "unix/:7100"
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> # FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> # FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscalled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> EndSection
>
> And this gives me the best results I've been able to achieve so far. But,
> I thought using xfs was a *good* thing to do, and that truetype fonts made
> things prettier...Does not using xfs hurt performance much in X? Font
> gurus, please help.
>
> Jesse
>
>
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