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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:01:21PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Duane Malcolm said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently installed gnome. X started fine but gdm wouldn't. I did a bit
> > of research knowing it was a font problem and I found the font
> > path(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts) wasn't included in the
> > /etc/fonts/local.conf file. So I put this in and it worked fine.
> >
> > Is this something casting should do?? Or is it expected common knowledge?
> >
> > Duane
> 
> It isn't common knowledge, I haven't modified my /etc/fonts/local.conf at
> all and it works for me.  Probably a spell should be taking care of this
> (fontconfig, IIRC).  May want to try 'cast -r -c fontconfig' and see if it
> fixes the problem (well, you already fixed it, but... ;)).
> 
> -sandalle
 
Fontconfig doesn't take care of it, it did for some time, but then the
author decided that non scalable fonts like the X bitmap fonts shouldn't
be listed by fontconfig and removed them from the default config.
Gdm should definitely not need them anyway. fontconfig puts
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 in
it's default config if it finds any fonts there. That should be enough
to run gdm2.

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