Bug 101652 – there is no mention of editing font paths in the xorg.conf file for using the newly installed fonts in the utf-8 guide

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description David Cozatt 2005-08-07 09:31:00 UTC]

After following the utf-8 guide I was unable to run either eboard or xboard.
This turned ouyt to be a problem of not having the correct FontPath set in
xorg.conf I would suggest adding the correct paths to the suggested fonts to the
utf-8 guide. example:

 FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
 or pointing to this doc
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-08-07 14:47:32 UTC]

many of those font paths shouldnt need to be listed ... but the x11 team would
know for sure

also, we dont link to gentoo-wiki.com

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 14:57:28 UTC]

Yeah, the X config guide could use a little section on "How to add new fonts"
that talked about adding font paths to xorg.conf or using xfs. Note these are
only necessary for core fonts, which basically means old toolkits like gtk-1.
Then the UTF-8 guide could refer to it.

gtk-2+ and qt use client-side fonts, which are automatically detected in
fontconfig for anything installing to /usr/share/fonts. All our font packages
install there.

[Comment 3 Shyam Mani (RETIRED) 2005-09-22 22:13:11 UTC]

Any mods to the docs needed here?

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 19:43:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Any mods to the docs needed here?

See comment #2.

[Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) 2005-10-25 12:11:47 UTC]

Created attachment 71441 [details, diff]
patch with the font path addition

Okay, I created a paragraph and a code example immediately after Code Listing
3.9. It shows how to set up xorg.conf with the right font paths after emerging
the [optional] font packages, as this is necessary.

[Comment 6 nm (RETIRED) 2005-10-25 12:18:09 UTC]

Created attachment 71442 [details, diff]
the real patch

Oops. Submitted the wrong patch. This one is it!

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-10-25 12:37:01 UTC]

I was alluding in comment #2 to a generic "Adding fonts" section in the
xorg.conf guide, which needs it anyway. Then the UTF-8 guide could refer to it,
rather than having new information that really belongs in the X guide.

[Comment 8 nm (RETIRED) 2005-10-26 19:19:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I was alluding in comment #2 to a generic "Adding fonts" section in the
> xorg.conf guide, which needs it anyway. Then the UTF-8 guide could refer to it,
> rather than having new information that really belongs in the X guide.
Well, seeing as I'm currently writing a font HOWTO... see the progress at bug
#108642

[Comment 9 nm (RETIRED) 2006-09-03 23:32:41 UTC]

Deprecated in favor of bug #108642 . Also, the font ebuilds in Portage take care of setting their paths and what have you, so the UTF8 fonts recommended in the guide don't need postconfiguration.