On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:54:31 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 8/7/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam(a)arcor.de>
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.