Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.20
Severity: normal
When the xfs package is not installed, certain programs, such as xfd
and emacs, generate the error message "Unable to load any usable
ISO8859 font". Others, such as xterm, rxvt, and Firefox, work fine
even if xfs is not installed.
I don't think that X programs should rely on the presence of a font
server, but if they do, the error message should be changed to
something along the line of "Unable to connect to font server" or
"xfs not running."
The "files" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf on my system is:
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.29
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.0-12 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
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