Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (14 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:25:48PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> Am 17.11.2010 12:13, schrieb Stefan Dirsch:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:11:13AM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> > > I have some news about the font problem:
> > >
> > > background: we use for some tools the Xforms-toolkit and found that with 
> > > OS11.3
> > > some fonts have the wrong size.
> > >
> > > The problem in our case is:
> > > FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> > >
> > > wenn adding a "files" with this content to xorg-xonf.d everything works 
> > > fine
> > >
> > > the wired think is that these path now shows up two times with "xset q".
> > > so far we are confused.
> >
> > So it works with the following font path order:
> >
> > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/URW/,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,built-ins
> >
> > I guess that then the fonts in 75dpi are preferred by the xforms toolkit. 
> > The
> > changed behaviour is a bit weird since we had such a static font path order 
> > in
> > xorg.conf (created by SaX2) since about a decade.
> >
> >   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> >   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
> >   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> >   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> >
> > One workaround would be to start the xforms-toolkit applications via a
> > wrapper, which adjusts the font path first
> >
> >   xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled; xset fp rehash
> >
> > But since this affects also all other applications, which are still using 
> > X11
> > server side rendering, you can add this line also to your ~/.xinitrc.
>
> yep,
> what is realy strange is that the entry appears double, and it is working.

No, that isn't strange. The path order is hardcoded. Then you add this path at
the beginning. If you want to avoid that, just use:

xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
xset fp rehash

> The behavior is reproduceable with a OS11.3 install but not with a live-cd.

Makes no sense to me. In both cases the path(-order) is hardcoded.

Thanks,
Stefan

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