Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the
number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with
fonts.
Can someone clarify a point with me ...
when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7101" # true type server
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
this can be viewed with
xset -q
If I want to tempory reduce the number of fonts on offer I would use
xset -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
xset fp rehash
when I next do a
xset -q
I find that cyrillic has gone, all good
however the font is still avalible. Is this because at the start of
XF86config-4 it accesses xfs via unix/:7100 ?
xfs looks at a config file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config, which contains ...
# paths to search for fonts
catalogue =
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefonts/
so am I right in thinking that server unix:/7100 will find the fonts anyway
regardless of what I do with xset -fp ? This seems to be what is happening.
So is there any tempory way of removing font directories short of removing
them in XF86config-4 AND /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config for xfs ?
Dave
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