On 2008-12-06 20:31 +0100, lee wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> 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" > > UTSL?
"Use the source, Luke" -- see http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UTSL.html. > xset q says: > > Font Path: > /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, > /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType > > So what does it mean when man xorg.conf says that "the server falls > back to the compiled-in default font path" in case no font path is > specified in xorg.conf? In xorg.conf, I have specified: > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/util/" Do these directories all exist? Non-existent entries will be removed from the font path. > Now some font paths seem to come from somewhere else than from the > configuration. What happens with the compiled-in defaults when a font > path is specified in the configuration? They are merged, with the font path in the configuration coming first. See /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/NEWS.Debian.gz for details. > And look at the path: Three entries are doubled (100dpi/:unscaled, > misc, Type1), Because they are in the xorg.conf _and_ in the default path. > one entry seems to be incorrect (100dpi), Why should it be incorrect? > and one entry > might come from the compiled-in defaults. The /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType directory, I suppose. > Two of the paths I specified > seem to be invalid --- if there are no fonts in those directories, > what do they have to do under /usr/share/X11/fonts? What a mess ... It was _you_ who specified them, and the X server just corrected that misconfiguration by deleting non-existent directories. The entry FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/" only makes sense if the xfonts-encodings is installed, for instance. > Is it just me, or is Debian getting more and more sloppy with things > like this? Apart from the bad xorg.conf manpage, I don't see anything wrong. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
