From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUzj7-0004xz-IK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:36:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79E65E0586; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F50E0586 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j3so171623tid.10 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:36:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=VrPDUCRFXN9BfBatMNO57ij559iT5Cg2Ll+nkXwX8pM=; b=NYBhTKij1j/nKtrz7BVqgttrRgQGs0W+z6J9eo+e9mtS7vUJGwau/skQ6fKuQDstVl o/5yIW+eh4RAIpkqn3NmGU3FtGn3nwgSPtnI2aV3gee0WD0wo25UGdcBFFKkGvsQFNLh p//TZX02meBIub5dDjo4KCIilZ6ULUJ4G836w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=lZST2NzIEiJnPGGgPFvnH8Lr6LyYa98q2tW8aqALT9cXcKHUXE3EmISP8jC1LqjaVn lPnxwWuJC7OgBFqrN51Im3xMH7QtcP1fwnlzwltn7LRvy+F41S9/BHJySqNFNLsL0hC8 J3u157wmM/aXOwtkLRHiyNbKkKftSffkH68e4= Received: by 10.110.68.10 with SMTP id q10mr353038tia.32.1233823006996; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:36:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([59.93.244.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d1sm843818tid.14.2009.02.05.00.36.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:36:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:13:06 +0530 From: Man Shankar To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it Message-ID: <20090205084306.GB20507@gentoo.mychoice> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <58965d8a0902041405u493f1e68wdcc74a104fad2b35@mail.gmail.com> <200902050847.45840.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200902050840.08286.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902050840.08286.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 7596c0d9-944f-4747-872f-366601d60e03 X-Archives-Hash: b64fbeba33a5449e89ace5d11afe1fef On 08:40 Thu 05 Feb , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: > > > Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my > > > xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in > > > xorg.conf at all these days? > > > > Fonts are complicated :-) > > > > IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in xorg.conf > > you don't need any fonts in xorg.conf. > I use the terminus font for my terminal-emulator and it doesnt work if that font-path is missing from xorg.conf. Urxvt complains of unable to load font. Also i supply the font name as URxvt*font: -xos4-terminus-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-u in my .Xdefaults. -- Thanks & Regards, Man Shankar