Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:49:35 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: That would be a reason not to package xfonts-100dpi at all, right? It'll probably die eventually, yes. I was using xmessage and xlsfonts to debug. The actual affected program was xvile. I can imagine users running into this

Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 673170 wishlist reassign 673170 xfs 1:1.0.8-7 tags 673170 + upstream quit Julien Cristau wrote: One way to fix it would be to have X / xfs watch its fontpath with inotify or similar and automatically refresh things. Nobody cares enough about core fonts to implement that. Thanks.

Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 16:06:44 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Trying to address http://bugs.debian.org/563250 (xvile appearance wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi.

Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 16:06:44 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Trying to address http://bugs.debian.org/563250 (xvile appearance wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi.

Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Trying to address http://bugs.debian.org/563250 (xvile appearance wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi. Alas: $ xmessage -fn lucidasans-10 It was the best of times

Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

2012-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: xfonts-utils Version: 1:7.7~1 Files: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-dir Hi, Trying to address http://bugs.debian.org/563250 (xvile appearance wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi. Alas: $ xmessage -fn lucidasans-10 It was the best of times Warning: Cannot