[Sussex] ps options

[Thomas Adam]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:08:16PM +0100, Frances Fleming wrote:
> Googled for the term "unscalable font" and found an article at
> http://www.promptweb.co.uk/fonts/.
>
> Excerpt: You can tell you have a stand-alone font server running by
> typing ps ax | grep xfs.

First thing to always remember is this:  You don't need xfs running.

You can, for the most part ignore what you've read.  What I tend to do,
and have done in the past is rearrange the Font lines in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 0r /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  The order is important --
since the order the font lines are listed is the order they're searched
in.

So, here's what your file probably looks like:

        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

That's usually fine.  The problem is that your fonts will probably look
terrible.  So I rearrange them to look like this:

        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"

... notice that I put the unscaled fonts at the end, and also I put the
75dpi font before the 100dpi font --- this is to match the -dpi option
that the Xserver runs with when it starts off [1].  I then, for
completeness sake, run:

fc-cache -f

... as root, to regenerate the font cache files.

-- Thomas Adam

 [1] You can always use "xset +fp" to see these lines, and hence what
 the Xserver is using.
 
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