Problems with X font handling

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora at camperquake.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:29:54 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote
>
>> Of course the fontdir is set up correctly with mkfontdir.
>> It happens on:
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.99.3-8.fc11.x86_64
>
> I can confirm that
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-6.fc10.i386
>
> works, and
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.99.901-1.fc11.i386
>
> does not.

I think this is because the xserver now defaults to using builtin fonts.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=385943e0e9

This is nice since most people don't care about server-side fonts.
However, I think it means that you don't get to use them at all. So, I
think to fix this, you either need to build the server with
--disable-builtin-fonts or apply this patch:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/xorg-x11-server/devel/xserver-1.4.99-builtin-fonts.patch?view=markup

which gets you both builtin and loadable fonts. FWIW, the xserver in
master does this now more cleanly:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=49b93df8

--
Dan