Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> X is crashing because you have too many fonts to have loaded all at once.
> font_cacher makes an index of all installed fonts, which causes X to load all
> the fonts that have been registered with it. If there are too many, X will
> run
> out of memory and crash. It's somewhat related to the fact that X will
> happily
> allow more fonts than it can handle be added to the font path, which normally
> isn't a problem because most people don't use every font they have. :)
> 
> You might be able to get it working by setting the following:
> 
> (after . /usr/lib/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh)
> 
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask "*-iso8859-1"
> 
> This will make font_cacher only load fonts matching the mask, hopefully a low
> enough number that X won't go tits-up.
> 

I have not tried this yet.  However your answer concerns me.  Why does GNUStep
feel it needs to load up all of my fonts?  I have lots of fonts installed
because I occasionally need to test how Japanese looks or 100 dpi v. 75 dpi. 
It seems silly to me to load up each font in my font list when the average user
will only use around 5 fonts.