From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902050847.45840.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0902041405u493f1e68wdcc74a104fad2b35@mail.gmail.com>
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
The newer ttf fonts are better handled by fontconfig. This gives you the
questionable benefit of replacing a somewhat-hard-to-read xorg.conf with an
impossible-to-read XML file.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 7:39 [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it Helmut Jarausch
2009-02-04 7:49 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-04 8:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-02-04 22:23 ` Michael P. Soulier
2009-02-05 0:29 ` Paul Hartman
2009-02-04 8:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-04 9:29 ` Norberto Bensa
2009-02-04 22:05 ` Paul Hartman
2009-02-05 6:47 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-02-05 7:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-02-05 8:31 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-05 8:43 ` Man Shankar
2009-02-04 16:17 ` James
2009-02-04 16:34 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2009-02-04 20:43 ` Alan McKinnon
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