--- "Altoine B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You have to manually start and stop xfs. But if you
> want a quick hack.
> Open up XF86Config-4 with your favorite editor and
> go to the line
> pointing to your font path. unmark by putting # in
> front of the FontPath
> unix/:-1 like this
>
> # FontPath "unix/:-1"
>
> The cool thing about this hack is that it forces the
> drakfont (I think
> that is correct) to point to the new fonts directory
> (more than likely,
> it wrote over some application font path conf
> files). You can reboot and
> it will still work. After rebooting, you can remove
> the "#" comment from
> XF86Config-4. The other way, I haven't tried first
> but was irrelevant
> after doing the above option but I got this from a
> netscape forum.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
>
> This has something to do with the X Font server
> (xfs) others and myself
> conjecture. Try this one first before the other one,
> as I am dying to
> know if that way really works. But if you look at
> the methods behind the
> two...
> they both target the X Font Server and do a
> disable-then-enable
> approach. Possible bug.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Al
>
> To manually start and stop your service use these
> two commands:
Thanks Al
I tried the xfs stop but it is an invalid switch,
however your little trick worked just great. My kde
2.1 is running fine now and it sure is nice. How do I
continue to upgrade kde, can I use mandrake update now
or should I continue to do it manually?
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