Bug 135538

Summary:	make media-fonts update /etc/X11/fs/config
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan de Konink <stefan>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	x11
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan de Konink 2006-06-04 10:15:10 UTC

Currently, after installing a new font package /etc/X11/fs/config needs to have an update in order xfs (x font server) to do something useful with it. It sounds trivial to add the new directory to the search pad of this config file.

Maybe it would be an idea to cache the directory after the fonts are installed and xfs is running.

Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-04 10:33:53 UTC

Yes, programs exist to do this. But frankly, pretty much nobody cares about xfs anymore.

Comment 2 Stefan de Konink 2006-06-04 12:09:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yes, programs exist to do this. But frankly, pretty much nobody cares about xfs
> anymore.

Did I miss something big? Isn't xfs the only way to get new fonts into X without restarting it?

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-04 14:24:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Did I miss something big? Isn't xfs the only way to get new fonts into X
> without restarting it?

Yeah, I think so. All current toolkits use fontconfig/freetype/Xft instead of the old core fonts mechanism, which is what xfs is for. The new client-side fonts don't require an X restart to be recognized.

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-15 20:10:40 UTC

I fail to see why this bug has been files w/ Gentoo at all... Plus, xfs is dead.