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