From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 11 1:33:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF6737B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF8F43E65 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id F00D8534A; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:33:20 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: rsi@panix.com Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Thierry Herbelot , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] References: <20020710224000.GA1331@lpt.ens.fr> <200207102307.g6AN7SV22593@panix1.panix.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Jul 2002 10:33:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200207102307.g6AN7SV22593@panix1.panix.com> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rajappa Iyer writes: > Rahul Siddharthan 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. 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. 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). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message