On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:14:45PM +0100, thus said Michael Natterer: > Yeah, additionally, if the image resolution is a bit extreme, GIMP > requests really huge fonts from the X server. Some buggy X servers > then prefer to crash. s/some buggy/most/ :-( (at least according to my experience) Well, if one runs a fontserver, it seems to crash pretty easily when you ask for a huge font. And X doesnt like it if its fontserver decides to die. But sometimes one manages to restart the fontserver, rehash the fontpaths and X might not crash ... Tuomas -- .---> tigert@xxxxxxxxxx . |\,/| tigert@xxxxxxxx <-----. +----> www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <----+ `-----> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'
