On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:54:31 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 8/7/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:35:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > > Kelly wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > That should not happen in Fedora anymore. > > > > Depends on your configuration. Here with F7 and GNOME I could not stop > > xfs because fonts would be missing afterwards. E.g. Emacs fails fatally: > > > > $ emacs > > No fonts match `-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-100-iso8859-15' > > > > $ xterm > > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct > > xterm: unable to open font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15", trying "fixed".... > > > > And stopping a running xfs sort of "kills" X until the X server is restarted. > > > Did you put the font paths into your xorg.conf Why me? Either Fedora 7 can run without xfs out of the box, or it can't, since the user would need to edit xorg.conf manually. Last time I ran system-config-display it didn't put any font paths into xorg.conf. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
