On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:06, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Michael Taylor wrote: > > > Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > > The dreaded > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > > > - can happen at the least expected times. > > > > > > 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. > > > > No need. Fonts could be specified via FontPath in the XF86Config file, so as not > > to solely depend on the font server (xfs in this case). I believe someone has > > suggested this idea as a change in default configuration recommended. > > > > E.g. > > > > Section "Files" > > [...] > > FontPath "unix/:7100" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > > EndSection > > Yes. Also, you don't want to put fixed in the server because > the question is which fixed font do you use. Some people want small > fonts, some people want unicode. This "fixed font" problem is > strictly a configuration issue and one that should get fixed by the > configuration programs. Besides, embedding the fixed font isn't > going to make the bug reports go away. Think of how ugly the > desktop is going to look.
Yes, but is fixed actually used for anything else than a last resort font these days? You can still use the real font specification to get it in any other size or encoding. -- Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
