The font beautification HOWTO went to great length to get us to
put better-looking fonts in "front" of worse ones in the xfs config
file; but, as best as I can tell, the order of the font paths in the
/etc/X11/fs/config file is irrelevant to the order in which a font
will be selected when I ask for one. All the fonts are simply sorted
alphabetically, and when Netscape needs an "Arial" font, it gets the
first one it finds (alphabetically).
If I happen to install a font directory with fonts named
"-aaaaa-stuff-stuff-stuff...", those fonts will take priority over all
my other fonts, even if I put the font directory last in my xfs config
file. Renaming the fonts to begin with "-zzzzzz-stuff-stuff-stuff..." (in
the fonts.dir file) means that these fonts are now chosen last, even
if I put this font directory first in my xfs config file.
Is this the way it is supposed to work?
Mandrake 7.2
Linux oak 2.2.19-6.3mdk #1 Thu Nov 15 15:17:52 MST 2001 i686 unknown
XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk
XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-28mdk
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