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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font setup in "startkde". CORRECTION
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-08-31 16:41:24
Message-ID: 4134AA34.5020904 () acm ! org
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> Running "mkfontdir" on the user's font directories is questionable.
> 
> The first issue is that this command has changed since this part of the 
> script was first written.  The current command which comes with XFree86 
> requires the: "-e" parameter.  If it is run on a font directory without 
> this parameter, it will remove the file: "encodings.dir".  I don't think 
> that KDE needs this, but other programs might.
> 
> Second, running the command will only detect BIT MAPPED fonts unless the 
> command: "mkfontscale" is run first, except for the case when the system 
> is using a link:
> 
>     mkfontdir -> mkfontscale
> 
CORRECTION:

The relationship between "mkfontdir" & "mkfontscale" is not a link.

On my system, "mkfontdir" is a very short script that calls "mkfontscale".

------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale -b -s -l "$@"

------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<

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JRT
 
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