On Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:18 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Sorry, that was over 2 years ago. I haven't had a problem
with system
> fonts since I started using Fedora.
You seem to be worrying about a really old problem in a different
distribution and saying that the current plan in Fedora sucks because of
that. Doesn't seem to be very logical to me.
Experimentation I performed at the time showed that the problem was the system
didn't have any way of properly finding the fonts. When I started using xfs,
the problem disappeared. That is why I'm worried about it.
> BTW, if Xorg doesn't need xfs, why is it that Xorg will
crash if xfs
> isn't running?
Are you using Fedora 7? I have turned off XFS while back. Xorg starts
just fine. Previous version did have a startup check to see if the core
fonts exists and fail otherwise because some legacy apps (as in ancient
and crufty) still need them but we don't have that check anymore.
I don't remember exactly which version I was running, because I don't shut
down my system very often (it runs as both a server and a desktop). When I
was configuring another Fedora system (with 7), I noted that Xorg wouldn't
start without xfs.
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