Xref: utzoo comp.unix.ultrix:1140 comp.windows.x:11299 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!garcon!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: mkfontdir under DECwindows Message-ID: Date: 3 Jul 89 18:03:24 GMT References: Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 21 In-reply-to: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 3 Jul 89 01:58:11 GMT I found out how to install fonts under DECwindows. The DECwindows server doesn't use a fonts.dir file; when you specify an additional font path (who knows how you do this if you don't have xset from the MIT tape), the server reads that directory and does the equivilent of a mkfontdir right then. This is, of course, very slow, but I suppose that it only gets done on login. However, one could certainly imagine more clever schemes to maintain a cached copy of that information that is rebuilt whenever it's determined that it might be out of date. Also, it appears that, under DECwindows, when you request a font that isn't available, it simply gives you *something* -- before properly installing the ``cmr10.85'' font used by texx2, I did ``xfd -fn cmr10.85'' and got back another font -- certainly not the one I asked for, nor an error message. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)