On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:21:18AM +0800, Henry Jen wrote: > Hi, > > I have problem to use Arphic TTF. I believe I installed them correctly, > when type > $xfd -fn '-default-ming-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-big5-0' > the xfs-xtt crashed, you can not see the process any more by 'px -ax'. > I can not start any other programx in X. > > Does anybody meet the same problem? Ideas?
My guess: You're using "startx" instead of "xdm", correct? :-) When you run startx, you need to add "-deferglyphs 16", like so: $ startx -- -deferglyphs 16 Otherwise, X would try to load the ENTIRE font with all 14000+ Chinese glyphs into memory at once. This causes xfs-xtt to crash, and since X can't find the font server, it can no longer request any fonts to be displayed, hence no new programs may be started. There are discussions on adding "-deferglyphs 16" by default to X in a future release. This is already the default for "xdm", but not yet for startx. Hope this helps, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada Debian Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/international/chinese/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/