[Xastir] Font troubles

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:15:52PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote:
> > 
> > > FWIW, on all of my FreeBSD and Linux systems, the file
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias shows the "fixed" alias to be:
> > >
> > > fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
> > 
> > Here are my two:
> > 
> > /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-koi8-r
> > /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
> 
> Interesting. I have both of those, too.  But since only the fonts in directories
> I've explicitly added to xorg.conf get found, I don't have the problem.
> 
> Perhaps your xorg.conf is set up to include both of those directories in 
> its font path?  Can you just remove the FontPath line that enables the
> cyrillic fonts?

Or if you're set up to use the font server instead (as my RedHat system is),
change the font server config not to look for the cyrillic fonts (or look for
them after the other directories).

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
 "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours."  -- R. Bach