Does Xephyr honor scaled / unscaled or priority parameter through symbolic link to fonts?

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Issue

  • Additional font related parameters like scaled / unscaled or priority can be passed by link in /etc/X11/fontpath.d/ directory to actual fonts as below
ll /etc/X11/fontpath.d/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 mei 31 09:49 default-ghostscript -> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 mei 31 09:49 fonts-default -> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 mei 31 09:48 liberation-fonts -> /usr/share/fonts/liberation
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 mei 31 09:56 vkl -> /usr/share/fonts/vkl
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 mei 31 09:51 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi:unscaled:pri=30 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 26 mei 31 09:51 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 mei 31 09:51 xorg-x11-fonts-misc:unscaled:pri=10 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
  • This does work well with Xorg
  • Does window based X servers shipped with RHEL support this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • xorg-x11-server-Xephyr
  • xorg-x11-server-Xnest

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