On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:16:24PM -0500, Gene C. wrote: > On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:53, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > Well, if it is not documented clearly in any of the official Red > > Hat Linux manuals that come with the distribution in hard copy, > > or are available on ISO image or online, then I would consider > > this a possible problem that needs to get fixed. I haven't > > looked in the documentation to find out if we've documented this > > or not, as I assume we have. If font configuration is not > > covered in our manuals, or is incorrect or incomplete, then you > > may very well have a legitimate complaint, and I urge you to file > > a bug report in bugzilla against our documentation. If it is > > documented, then I urge you to read it. > > Actually Mike, this is not well documented in the Red Hat Reference Manual. > In fact there is no mention of Xft ... only xfs. > I just did a search every 8.0 manual online to see what I could Xft references I could find. This is it (in the release notes): "Red Hat Linux now uses Xft for fonts in GNOME and KDE, which uses fontconfig for configuring fonts. The old style Xft config file /etc/X11/XftConfig is no longer used or supported, having been replaced by the new unified fontconfig method of configuration. The fontconfig config file can be customized by editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file. If you have fonts that you would like to add to your configuration, you can copy them to ~/.fonts (or /usr/share/fonts), and run fc-cache directory. The fonts will then be available. " To make matters worse, the 8.0 release notes are not obvious on the web page like all the other releases and I had a tougher time finding them than I should have. Here's the link: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ The way to find the release notes is to click on the 8.0 link - they're not listed in the 8.0 section like they are for 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1. Fill in Xft in the search box and you don't get much information either. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
