Re: Updating to xorg-x11 packages?

Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:27:53 +0100

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:22, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > yum --exclude=Xfree86\* install xorg-x11
> 
> And check you have 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6 at least - the previous rpm
> sets had a borked xfs install, which caused X startup to fail.

I always disable XFS support and reconfigure X11 to not use a font
server, but font files directly from disk. Excerpt from XF86Config:

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#       FontPath     "unix/:7100"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

I don't see any benefit from running a font server locally, much less
running a font server over the network.