Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:04:20 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: rsi@panix.com, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] Message-ID: <20020711100420.GB2212@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <xzpvg7mk6jz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <20020710224000.GA1331@lpt.ens.fr> <200207102307.g6AN7SV22593@panix1.panix.com> <xzpvg7mk6jz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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[followups to -doc] Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Jul 11, 2002 at 10:33:20: > Rajappa Iyer <rsi@panix.com> writes: > > Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > > > XFree86 -- FreeBSD uses it too, but the linuxen have better > > > configurators, and possibly better default font setups, these days. > > > So FreeBSD is actually worse off. > > I don't know if any Linux distribution has a different font setup. > > Most of them set up a font server by default, which gives better and > smoother scaling. Can you use a fontserver with Xft (needed for anti-aliased fonts)? If so, what are the required entries in /etc/X11/XftConfig? > On FreeBSD, the font server has to be set up > manually, which requires figuring out the undocumented "magic" font > path (unix/:7100) if you want to use a Unix socket instead of a TCP > socket (recommended for security reasons, though our docs don't tell > you that, just like they don't tell you how to stop X from listening > for TCP connections, or even that it would be a good idea to do so), > then editing /etc/X11/XF86Config and writing a startup script. I could write a few words about it for the handbook, once I figure out how it plays with xft. However, there seems to be no problem running a font server at the same time as using kde with xft (with explicit font path entries in XftConfig). Much of the xft stuff in the font section of the handbook was written by me, and it's high time some of it was updated. The unix socket stuff should really be in the manpage too, as supplied by the XFree86 project, is there any reason it isn't? > Worse, the new "bits-and-pieces" XFree86-4 port does not even install > default configuration files in /etc/X11 any more, so you have to > locate a sample xfs configuration, customize it, and figure out where > to put it (/etc/X11/fs/config). What do the port maintainers say? I didn't know this, since I have a pre-4.2.0 cvs version of XFree86, which works fine so I didn't bother upgrading. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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