First Fedora7 problem : KDE + Xorg + Fonts

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 06:24:44 UTC 2007


On 8/5/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
> >
> > According to the Google cache of the Xorg wiki (which was down at the
> > time), "The use of the font server xfs is deprecated due to several
> > bugs in it. It is recommended that the Xserver loads the fonts
> > directly."
>
> Right. Fedora is dropping XFS (X font server, not the filesystem) by
> default in the next version so this problem is going away.
>
> See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS. Mostly
> done. Just a few fonts need to be fixed.
>
> Rahul


Interesting to know, seems like progress to me.


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