On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up fonts. > Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and > specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts in > media-fonts as well as a few others and added all dirs to local.conf. > However, there is a ~30 second pause on the startup of each application with > this configuration. Adding them to XF86Config instead gives a ~30 second > pause at the start up of the X server, which is not quite as bad but still > frustrating. Anybody got lots of fonts and has solved these problems? I thought this is what xfs (X Font Server) was for. emerge xfs then add it to the rc.d (rc-update add xfs default).
The first time you start it has to trawl the font dirs, but then it generates a cache. It only updates the cache when you add new fonts. So generally it is a lot quicker. Then you config X to use xfs. I've just realised I don't have X configed to use xfs so I'm about to hunt to find out. Once I do I'll let you know. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
