On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:39:37PM +0000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: >The dreaded > >Fatal server error: >could not open default font 'fixed' > >- can happen at the least expected times. > >This happened to a collegue when upgrading packages on his fedora >installation, and for some reason the font server wasn't starting. I had >to help him remotely, relaying commands through the telephone, since ssh >into his machine was not working either. > >To the point: wouldn't it be benecifial to embed the fixed font in the X >server binary itself? It would harden the x server tremendously in case >of system failures. On my system the fixed font, which is really the >6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz is 4366 bytes big.
I've suggested doing something like this. There is code in the XFree86 tree for a "built-ins" font path, and to be useful it could be implicitly appended to the font path as a fallback. There are some complications in bringing this in quickly because of its dependence on the "bitmap" font module, and I think it is worth following up post-4.4. Of course once this is done, the problem reports will change to "My X apps can't find the fonts they need," or "Why is everything is using the same ugly font?" David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
