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KENTOSI

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 69

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X font server

Hi all,

I'm coming from a Fedora background, so bare with me :-)  Now, when I modify /etc/fonts/local.conf I used to run

service xfs restartp

whicih would restart the X font server and read the new config settings.

How do I do this in arch?  there doesn't seem to be an "xfs" script in /etc/rc.d/

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Stinky

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From: The Colony, TX

Registered: 2004-05-28

Posts: 187

Re: X font server

There's a kewl script Dibble wrote that may be what you're looking for.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … ont+server

The last post is the finished product.

KENTOSI

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 69

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Re: X font server

Awesome!  Thanks.

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~gautam

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: X font server

No that's wrong - the x font server, for one - is so old it's funny.  If you want to support motif and cde apps, and other things from the 80s, then xfs is great... however, modern apps user fontconfig.... fontconfig ic managed by /etc/fonts/*.  The xfs does not use these files - the font server will only use the font path's specified in xorg.conf

Basically - ignore the font server... when you make fontconfig changes, they're picked up whenever an app requests a font, so don't worry about anything like that... if you change paths you should run "fc-cache -fv" to recache them...

don't use the font server... it's bad

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gernberg

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Registered: 2011-05-22

Posts: 3

Re: X font server

@phrakture: Thank you - "fc-cache -fv" worked like a charm after adding the msttcorefonts.

ConnorBehan

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From: Long Island NY

Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 1,359

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Re: X font server

This thread is another thing that's so old it's funny. I'm betting it will be closed soon.

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BlkChockr

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Registered: 2016-09-01

Posts: 14

Re: X font server

This thread is another thing that's so old it's funny. I'm betting it will be closed soon.

It seems you lost this bet. It's 2018 and I came across this (open) thread in search of a solution for my font problem.

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,665

Re: X font server

Well it isn't going to have as much luck in the future.

Closing.