[comp.windows.x] A place for distribution-specific fonts

dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott) (08/01/89)

I'm in a little bit of a dilemma.  On one hand, our distribution of X
requires some fonts that aren't part of the standard supported fonts
(they're the Kanji and Kana fonts, which are part of the contrib
stuff).  On the other hand, if I change the fonts/bdf/misc directory so
that these fonts are there, I (or whoever is handling the distribution)
have to make the change every time there is a new X release.

We thought about changing our default font path, but this doesn't
help our X-terminal users, who will still have to use "xset" to
modify the font path.

My current plan is to add a distribution-specific directory that
will modify the existing fonts.dir and fonts.alias file when the
special fonts are installed, but it seems like the standard X
distribution could be a little better in allowing for this kind
of thing without having to modify the distribution.

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
			...!{boulder,nbires,sun}!stan!dce

jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (08/01/89)

	On the other hand, if I change the fonts/bdf/misc directory so
	that these fonts are there, I (or whoever is handling the distribution)
	have to make the change every time there is a new X release.

Sounds like a good solution to me.


	                                it seems like the standard X
	distribution could be a little better in allowing for this kind
	of thing without having to modify the distribution.

There is nothing sacred about the directory structure chosen for the MIT
releases.  A lot of vendors change the paths anyway, as do a lot of sites
that use the MIT servers.