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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:48:54
Message-Id: 200902050847.45840.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it by Paul Hartman
1 On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my
3 > xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in
4 > xorg.conf at all these days?
5
6 Fonts are complicated :-)
7
8 IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in xorg.conf
9
10 The newer ttf fonts are better handled by fontconfig. This gives you the
11 questionable benefit of replacing a somewhat-hard-to-read xorg.conf with an
12 impossible-to-read XML file.
13
14 --
15 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>