[gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

[gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

[Fredrik Tolf]

Hi List!

I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable. 
However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I haven't 
found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm turning to 
the list now.


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).

Also, when I'm starting xterms from other machines, they don't seem to 
care at all, so I'm guessing that the xterm on my own machine is looking 
for some fonts for which the parameters have somehow changed in 7.0 (I'm 
not very familiar with the X font system, so I don't really know what 
could have changed). It might be related that I am able to view CJK 
characters in the local xterms, but not the remote ones (they display `??' 
instead of one double-width character).


There is also another, unrelated and rather minor, problem: The 8x16 
fixed font seems to have disappeared in 7.0. Does anyone know where it went?


Thanks for reading!

Fredrik Tolf
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Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable.
> However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I
> haven't found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm
> turning to the list now.
> 
> 
> 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?

> There is also another, unrelated and rather minor, problem: The 8x16
> fixed font seems to have disappeared in 7.0. Does anyone know where it
> went?

Try font-schumacher-misc or font-sony-misc.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

[Fredrik Tolf]

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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