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MinimalBoot

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[ SOLVED ] Additional font path for Xorg, but no xorg.conf

As per this thread, there are fonts that need to be added to Xorg manually, but I can not find xorg.conf ( i.e., it does not exist ).

What should/can I do ?

Last edited by MinimalBoot (2012-06-03 22:05:09)

anonymous_user

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Additional font path for Xorg, but no xorg.conf

You could simply create an xorg.conf or if you use ~/.xinitrc you can add a line like:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &

Gusar

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Additional font path for Xorg, but no xorg.conf

Create xorg.conf and put those lines in there. You don't need anything else in there, just those lines. What anonymous_user probably also works.

DSpider

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Additional font path for Xorg, but no xorg.conf

Xorg can use the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" folder for quite some time now. I stopped using a single xorg.conf since practically all my X configuration is done from a clean "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor" file. So instead of using a (relatively blank) xorg.conf, you can make a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts" file with the paths:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … _with_Xorg

Or use the one from your example:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 80#p768680

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MinimalBoot

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Additional font path for Xorg, but no xorg.conf

Create xorg.conf and put those lines in there. You don't need anything else in there, just those lines. What anonymous_user probably also works.

Xorg can use the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" folder for quite some time now. I stopped using a single xorg.conf since practically all my X configuration is done from a clean "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor" file. So instead of using a (relatively blank) xorg.conf, you can make a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts" file with the paths:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … _with_Xorg

Or use the one from your example:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 80#p768680

Thank you - that's exactly what I was looking for