Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

[Man Shankar]

On 08:40 Thu 05 Feb     , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote:
> > > Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my
> > > xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in
> > > xorg.conf at all these days?
> >
> > Fonts are complicated :-)
> >
> > IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in xorg.conf
>
> you don't need any fonts in xorg.conf.
>
I use the terminus font for my terminal-emulator and it doesnt work if that 
font-path is missing from xorg.conf. Urxvt complains of unable to load
font. Also i supply the font name as 

URxvt*font:     -xos4-terminus-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-u

in my .Xdefaults. 

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Thanks & Regards,
Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com>