While I continue trying to restore fonts to my KDE konsoles, I'd like to make sure the X end of things is solid. To that end, I've removed everything from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts except the URW symlink to /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts, and extracted the tarballs from 4.5.0: Xfnts.tgz Xf100.tgz Xfscl.tgz Xfcyr.tgz and Xfenc.tgz. After reading the README.fonts and RELNOTES files and the manpages for mkfontdir, mkfontshare, xfs, fontenc, X and Xserver, I'm left with these questions: Since the 4.5.0 tarballs contain fonts.dir, fonts.scale and encodings.dir files in each of the fonts directories, is it still necessary to run mkfontscale/mkfontdir as part of the installation? How about fc-cache? Perhaps it's just a rephrasing of the questions above, but unless I want to install additional fonts, is it necessary to do anything else, besides install the tarballs, to set up 4.5.0 fonts? If I do run mkfontscale/mkfontdir, should I give the -e arg pointing to the encodings and encodings/large directories? If I'm a self-contained workstation, is it best to run the font server, xfs, or just rely on the fontpaths in the XF86Config file? If I do use xfs, should I also include all the relevant fontpaths in XF86Config, or just the reference to the font server? TIA, Jim _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
