On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
> I've noticed, that sometimes when lpaying with fonts (especially hebrew -
> but that could also pretain to any other language other then
> english), that XFS crashes. I learned to always have a konsole open when
> doing such stuff,and to check xfs after I play with font definitions.
>
> I still haven't found the reason for the instability.
In case you use redhat or mandrake and xfs crashes, you better switch to a
text console immediately and do whatever necessary to get xfs up
again. Otherwise your X session will generally hang the next time it will
look for a new font (redhat and mandrake use by default all the fonts from
a fonts server)
I remember thatg I managed to crash xfs of mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 with some
simple manipalations of the output of ttmkfdir (see reports in the ivrix
list about ttmkfdir-heb), but could not reproduce that in 7.2...
xfs is also a bit sensetive about placment of commas in its config file
(in case you manually edit it).
As for optimism: I generally do fonts manipulations from the console, and
verify the results first with 'fslsfonts -server unix/:-1' (for redhat 7 I
think this should be 'fslsfonts -server unix/:7100'), bacause I don't want
X crashing on me...
BTW: if a fonts server crashes and you started a new one, the current X
session still has not connected to the new fonts server.
is:
xset fp rehash
enough to re-establish this connection? Or is that X session lost?
Anyway, I figure slackware does not use xfs. Note that XFree4 already has
support for true-type fonts.
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > Howdy, all.
> > >
> > > After downloading most of the KDE 2.1 source packages and compiling them
> > > without much trouble (just a little workaround in kdoc was required to
> > > make it correctly locate Perl and its version) I went into that nifty
> > > configuration center of theirs and attempted to change my
> > > locale+fonts+language to hebrew. Funny thing, themoment I hit "Apply" the
> > > fonts changed to iso8859-8 and the configuration center proggie
> > > "localized" itself immediately. Only that to my surprise, nothing would
> > > loadafterwards, not even konsole. After attempting to restart it and
> > > watching the X logs miserably yelling about every second KDE app crashing
> > > upon startup, and after a bit of skimming through the helpfiles I found no
> > > solution.
> > > And yes, I've installed kde-i18n-he in the correct prefix. I have no idea
> > > what the problem is. I'm running Slackware 7.0 on an AMD K6-2\300,
> > > glibc2.1something , if it matters.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a clue?
> >
> > First of all, the kde hebrew localization requires iso10646-1
> > fonts. Otherwise localized strings would show upas gibrish/question
> > marks.
> >
> > See the IGLU faq (hebrew->fonts->availble fonts) for some such fonts. You
> > may have to settle for "fixed" if you can't find any other.
> >
> > But if you simply remove all the kde-i18n-he files, you will simply have
> >everything in english.
> >
> > In any case, it should not cause any crashes.
> >
> >
>
>
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