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From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:39:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153103949.14384.0.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152907623.13074.1.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com>

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:07 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 23:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > > My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs
> > > the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the
> > > new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs
> > > affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are
> > > affected.
> > > 
> > > I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server
> > > itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).
> > 
> > Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist?
> 
> Nope, and I never had it. Should it exist? In that case, whence should
> it point?

To follow up on this, the problem turned out to be the lack of CJK
fonts. When I installed font-{jis,isas,daewoo}-misc, it started working
just fine.

Fredrik Tolf


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-17  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14  3:01 [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0 Fredrik Tolf
2006-07-14  6:31 ` Donnie Berkholz
     [not found]   ` <1152907623.13074.1.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com>
2006-07-17  2:39     ` Fredrik Tolf [this message]

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