X11 ports

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2006-10-10 11:14:12 -0700, Mark Duling wrote:
> But what about fonts?  I can specify that they be installed in ${prefix},
> but the app can't find them.

This is probably a config problem. Under Linux, one can have fonts in
/usr/local/share/fonts (in addition to /usr/share/fonts) and they are
found.

> I've tried putting the ${prefix}-my-font-path in the catalogue path
> in /etc/X11/fs/config but it still can't find them.

Do you mean you're using a font server on your machine?

Otherwise I don't know how the font paths are set up under Mac OS X.
Perhaps with the xset command from the system and/or user xinitrc.
Moreover some applications use /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or
$prefix/etc/fonts/fonts.conf (via libraries such as Xft).

> Also, what about writing to /etc/X11/app-defaults? It seems to me
> there may be no way around that.

There is. See XFILESEARCHPATH and XUSERFILESEARCHPATH in the X(7) man
page. These environment variables may be set up in the system and/or
user xinitrc.

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