Re: Slight problem w/ fonts

[V . Krishna Kumar]

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 08:48, you wrote:
> Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > Adam Fedor wrote:
> >>Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> >>>Another problem is, however, if you have lots of fonts ( > 6000 in my
> >>>case), re-creating the font-cache will completely freeze (no mouse
> >>>movements, can't even switch to a console) my machine (a K7-700 with
> >>>512Meg) for about 20 minutes ... then font-cacher will dump a core,
> >>>about 6Meg in size ...
> >>>This happens _only_ if I run xfstt, though. Weird, bug, feature?
> >>
> >>I talked to other people who have problems with TrueType fonts and
> >>font_cacher. It would be interesting if we could make the GSFontMask
> >>feature of font_cacher work so you could incrementally add fonts -
> >>perhaps it could solve this problem.
> >
> > It would be rather simple to allow for multiple entries in this mask, e.
> > g. separated by ";". If anybody thinks that this will help a bit I will
> > add this, I don't think that the semicolon is a common character in a
> > font name. I could also try to avoid loading a X font, when the same
> > font was already loaded for a different size. For this to work we will
> > have to rely on the name returned by the XListFonts function, which
> > might actually be an alias.
>
> I suppose we should really test if adding TrueType fonts by themselves
> causes the X server to crash or it is mutiple things that cause it to
> crash.

I've had weird problems with XFSTT. So I stopped using it and instead 
switched to X's freetype extension. Since then everything is working fine. 
Iam using only TT fonts now. BTW, I use Mandrake 8.

-Krish