From: Luotao Fu Subject: [patch] add 'variable' to 100dpi and 75dpi fonts.alias The "variable" font point to helvectica, which only exists in 75dpi and 100dpi directories. Hence if an application queries for that variable it may fail. The font package mechanism is complicated, since directory structure on the installation target is often not synchronic with the order of the font packages. Various distributions solve this problem differently. Question to mainline has yet received no answer. Signed-off-by: Luotao Fu --- 100dpi/fonts.alias | 1 + 75dpi/fonts.alias | 1 + misc/fonts.alias | 1 - 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/100dpi/fonts.alias =================================================================== --- font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1.orig/100dpi/fonts.alias +++ font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/100dpi/fonts.alias @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +variable -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-8 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-11-80-100-100-p-69-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-10 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-14-100-100-100-p-90-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-12 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-p-108-iso8859-1 Index: font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/75dpi/fonts.alias =================================================================== --- font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1.orig/75dpi/fonts.alias +++ font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/75dpi/fonts.alias @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +variable -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-8 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-8-80-75-75-p-49-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-10 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 lucidasans-bolditalic-12 -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-p-79-iso8859-1 Index: font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/misc/fonts.alias =================================================================== --- font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1.orig/misc/fonts.alias +++ font-alias-X11R7.0-1.0.1/misc/fonts.alias @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ ! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $ fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 -variable -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 5x7 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1 5x8 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1 6x9 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1