On 2008-12-06 09:13 +0100, lee wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-12-06 08:23 +0100, lee wrote: >> > There was a Section "Files" in xorg.conf, but it was empty. >> >> Which is fine because the X server knows (or at least, is supposed to >> know) where to find fonts. > > See man xorg.conf: > > > "When this [the FontPath] entry is not specified in the config file, > the server falls back to the compiled-in default font path, which > contains the following font path elements: > > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
The manpage is wrong about the paths, fonts are in /usr/share/fonts and that's where the server looks. See http://bugs.debian.org/428918. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/X11/ > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-12-06 00:33 . > drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 40960 2008-12-05 23:31 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-06 00:33 x11perfcomp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > The server knows where it could find fonts, but there are none. It > worked before I made the FontPath entries, though. > > So how does the xserver find the fonts? It uses a compile-time path, we have to UTSL to find it out. The Debian package is configured with (sorry for the overly long line) --with-default-font-path="/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
