Bug 17974
| Summary: | xfs initscript looses user fonts.dir for true type | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Paul Flinders <ptf> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | makka |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-03-01 21:27:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
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This seems to be the intended behaviour of the ttmkfdir program. I do not see it as a problem. The author of the program will have to change the behaviour if it is to be changed at all. |
The initscript for xfs will overwrite user edits to fonts.{dir,scale}. This seems to be rather antisocial behaviour. I have quite a few TrueType fonts installed (in fact I use no bitmap fonts if I can help it). For some of the fonts ttmfdir output is not exactly as I want - for example it gives "Swis721 Md BT" as the name of a Bitstream sourced Swiss721 (aka Helvetica) font - the Md is really the weight (medium) so (IMO) souldn't be part of the familly name - to be fair to ttmfdir I think that this is the name actually recorded in the font. Consequently I have a hand-tuned fonts.dir for these fonts, unfortunately it gets overwritten every time I add a font to the directory (which is rather annoying).