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From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:45:58
Message-Id: 1153103949.14384.0.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com
1 On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:07 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 23:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
4 > > > My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs
5 > > > the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the
6 > > > new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs
7 > > > affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are
8 > > > affected.
9 > > >
10 > > > I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server
11 > > > itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).
12 > >
13 > > Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist?
14 >
15 > Nope, and I never had it. Should it exist? In that case, whence should
16 > it point?
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18 To follow up on this, the problem turned out to be the lack of CJK
19 fonts. When I installed font-{jis,isas,daewoo}-misc, it started working
20 just fine.
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22 Fredrik Tolf
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