[forum] bloatware

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:35, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
|   Ar an 30ú lá de mí 3, scríobh Vadim Plessky :
|   > |  That's trivial for you to fix.
|   >
|   > Again, I think that fix should go to right place.  Applications
|   > requesting 'fixed' font should be fixed first - at least to such level
|   > that those apps if I don't have fixed font installed.
|
|  The entire server crashes if you don't have the "fixed" font
|  installed.

This is not normal, IMO.
I would consider this a *serious* bug in X server implementation.
(I haven't made any tests on my own for this, though, and trus to your 
experience)

| Fortunately, you can customize what the fixed font is; have a
|  look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias

You can do substitution in FontConfig as well.

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Vadim Plessky
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