[Xastir] Font troubles (and fixes)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> Right, but 99.99999% of the setups have the X client and server on the
> same box, so the assumption they're the same box is usually valid.

Yea, I understand.  We also have to work properly when people run it
remotely, 'cuz that's part of X11's capability (and I tend to use
that).


> Last time I dealt with a problem like this, I had to rebuild the font
> database files (ala berkley DB) by hand.  Wasn't sure if X has
> advanced in 15 years.

They still have the old methods of loading fonts and setting
fontpaths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (used to be X11R6.conf I think).
They also have methods of running a font server so you can serve up
more fonts, including truetype fonts.  I think you can run one
fontserver on a network and have all of the X11 boxes use it.  The
only thing new about the above is the truetype support, and I'm not
sure whether I have that working/configured on any of my boxes.

I think there's also another method of dealing with fonts that some
of the newer widget sets use.

FWIW:  I checked in changes to CVS a little while ago that set the
default font to "fixed", so if a font that you selected isn't
available, at least you'll get something.

Earlier postings from me today detailed which packages on
OpenSuSE-11.0 to get rid of in order to get down to one "fixed"
fontalias instead of two.  Or you can change /etc/X11/xorg.conf as
Tom suggested to get rid of the fontpath to the cyrillic font.

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