[lug] Font installation question

[Gary Masters]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> > 2) Again as root, I added added the FontPath line to the Section  
> > "Files" as specified in the gimp directions: 
> > 
> > FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" 
> > 
> > 
> > The URW line follows the FontPath lines for "misc: unscaled",  
> > "75dpi: unscaled", and "100dpi: unscaled".  In what appeared to me  
> > to be a distribution dependent distinction, the Section "Files" was  
> > contained in XF86Config.eg, not XF86Config.   
> 
> Overkill.  You don't necessarily need to update the XF86Config file, but I
> suppose that works.  I just use 
> 

Doesn't RedHat 6.0 use the font server (xfs)?  Will it work correctly
to have part of the fonts accessed via xfs and others via a more
typical FontPath directive?

If the answer to the second question is no, perhaps it would work out
better to add that font to the xfs configuration, and restart xfs.

--
  Gary Masters
  gmasters at devcg.denver.co.us