Hello,

I am using Slackware 10. In this, I need to do

xset fp rehash

every time when I login to my account in X in order to make scalable fonts available to XFig. Where shall I put this command so that it is done automatically every time when I login through GDM? Is it possible to do this for all users at the time of booting? How?

Thanks for your help.

Anand

If you use Gnome you could run that command when you login to a gnome session. If you run gnome-session-properties and click the Startup Programs tab then click Add and put xset fp rehash in the Startup Command box, that command will be run every time you login to Gnome. I used to use this to run xset s 0 to stop the screen going blank after ten minutes, but then I descovered that if I put
Option "BlankTime" "0"
in the serverflags section of /etc/XF86Config it did the same thing.
But why do you need to run xset fp rehash? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just curious to know. According to man xset, "The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value, causing the server to reread the font databases in the current font path. This is generally only used when adding new fonts to a font directory (after running mkfontdir to recreate the font database)." You may find that if you alter your font path or reconfigure something in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf it may be simpler

Thanks Mr. Benton for your reply.

This is my problem:

I want to run XFig. XFig looks for scalable ghostscript Type1 fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 directory. But in Slackware 10, these fonts are installed in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts directory. So, I copied the required *.pfb files from this directory to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 directory. Then, I updated fonts.dir and fonts.scale. After this, if I execute xset fp rehash the fonts are available in XFig. But strangely next time when I login, XFig does not locate the fonts unless I execute xset fp rehash again. I do not know why.

What is the best way to solve this problem?

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Anand

Have you tried adding /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts to X's font path in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Section "Files"

FontPath "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/li...and so on

I renamed xfig binary as startxfig and then I wrote a script file named xfig like this:

#!/bin/sh
xset fp rehash
startxfig

This may not be the best solution. But still it is working now without modifying x.org file as suggested by you.

Anand