On Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:18 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Sorry, that was over 2 years ago. I haven't had a problem with system > > fonts since I started using Fedora. > > You seem to be worrying about a really old problem in a different > distribution and saying that the current plan in Fedora sucks because of > that. Doesn't seem to be very logical to me. Experimentation I performed at the time showed that the problem was the system didn't have any way of properly finding the fonts. When I started using xfs, the problem disappeared. That is why I'm worried about it. > > BTW, if Xorg doesn't need xfs, why is it that Xorg will crash if xfs > > isn't running? > > Are you using Fedora 7? I have turned off XFS while back. Xorg starts > just fine. Previous version did have a startup check to see if the core > fonts exists and fail otherwise because some legacy apps (as in ancient > and crufty) still need them but we don't have that check anymore. I don't remember exactly which version I was running, because I don't shut down my system very often (it runs as both a server and a desktop). When I was configuring another Fedora system (with 7), I noted that Xorg wouldn't start without xfs. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
