On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote:
> I have noticed that, at times, our application boots up and the fonts
> are different than a previous boot. I believe this is because the font
> server had some errors or some such.
>
> How would I go about changing the fonts from a font server to just
> listing the path? Do I need to use the mkfontdir and all that jazz
> again? Would the order in which I list them make a vast difference in
> access speed? This is an embedded system with limit resources...so every
> little bit counts.
Just take the paths you had in your /etc/X11/fs/config like:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
and put them in the XF86Config in the Section "Files" like:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
You don't need to run mkfontdir if it was already run once before.
You probably want the slower fonts (type1, Speedo, truetype) later in the
list, so that if you want a font for which a bitmap font exists, it will
use the faster bitmap font rather than generating the glyphs from
truetype. So keep misc, 75dpi, 100dpi up front. Generally,
people append those bitmap fonts with "unscaled" so that when a
bitmap font exists, but not of the correct size, it will skip it
rather than trying to scale the bitmap font which looks pretty bad.
Possibly, your fs/config already has a reasonable ordering.
Mark.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:26 AM
> To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Defining FontPath
>
> Maybe on an SMP machine. Otherwise I don't expect you to get
> anything out of using a font server other than a less stable
> system. I believe font server related crashes are still possible
> in XFree86.
>
> Mark.
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Is FontPath "unix/:7100" faster and more efficient than FontPath
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"?
> >
> > -Michael
> >
> >
>
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