#5775 NORM Future : It is basically impossible to install bitmapped fonts.

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#5775: It is basically impossible to install bitmapped fonts.
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  Reporter:  karmaflux        |       Owner:  bernie        
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  x window system  |     Version:                
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0                |    Blocking:                
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Comment(by frankprindle):

 I understand all that, but exactly how is it that X "has been instructed"
 to use ONLY builtins, i.e. to ignore all "xset fp" requests?

 Even if I run an instance of xfs and get it hooked to a fonts.dir, the
 client isn't going to ask xfs for fonts, it's going to ask the X server,
 which would need to be configured to pass the query along to xfs, which
 would need an "xset +fp tcp/:...." (or unix/:..., depending on how xfs is
 set up), which presumably doesn't work either.

 I'm not disagreeing with karmaflux... there is indeed a bit of a
 disconnect here. That is not to say OLPC needs to include any server-side
 fonts on the XO, it just shouldn't preclude installing them as needed. I'm
 hoping that when Update.1 comes out, we'll be able to sniff out exactly
 how the dejavu aliases get utilized, and use the same method to add any
 additional. The method detailed in #864 simply doesn't work.

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