Re: Slight problem w/ fonts

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:43:55 +0200 (EET)
Dan Pascu <dan@services.iiruc.ro> wrote:
> On  7 Jan, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:43:58 +0530
> > "V.Krishna Kumar" <birbal77@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 08:48, you wrote:
> >> > 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 haven't been able to crash X through any GNUstep app/tool - yet ;-)
> No, the X server doesn't crash, but font_cacher does. and this results

Right.

> in no font cache being built, and font_cacher is called upon whenever
> you start a GNUstep app (unless you temporarily disable TT fonts, build
> the cache then re-enable them).

Nope. I thought that as well. If I remove Fonts/Cache completely
and start an app, font_cacher will eventually crash - but there IS
a new Fonts/Cache/<display> ... the next application will not try
to re-create a font cache.

-- 
Chris