Remove fonts to make more space?
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Remove fonts to make more space?
started by: petergunn
Posted by petergunn on Dec. 14 2004,17:33
> du -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi4660 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
I renamed the 75dpi directory to 75dpi.xxx to see what would happen when I restarted X. Everything worked fine except a few of the applications looked a little clunky when the defaulted to the fixed system font.
Much of that 4.5Mb is already gzipped so probably uses the same amount of space on the DSL compressed filesystem... ~10% of the whole distribution.
Perhaps we could have the fonts as a .dsl and use the space for more apps??? :-)
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 14 2004,17:58
Dunno what you are talking about 4.5 meg, but my font file is exactly 61440 bytes.Not really big enough to make a difference, except that the way it is, makes DSL look nice.
Posted by petergunn on Dec. 14 2004,18:03
What font file are you talking about?Did you try...
du -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 14 2004,19:09
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| Did you try... du -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* |
try
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du -s /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* |
on a livecd
Posted by petergunn on Dec. 14 2004,19:34
Can you post the output? I only have a DSL laptop with a HD install and no CDROM.
Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 14 2004,20:58
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| root@ttyp0[dsl]# du -s /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* 4046 /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 102 /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings 1 /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 1249 /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 170 /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util root@ttyp0[dsl]# |
Posted by petergunn on Dec. 14 2004,21:40
75dpi look like ~4Mb to me
Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 14 2004,22:36
Total Size: 3.64 Mbytesin 407 Files
and 1 Directories
output from emelfm's du
Posted by ico2 on Dec. 15 2004,10:04
would be good to have better software instead of fonts 
Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 15 2004,10:47
Total Size: 5.08 Mbytesin 544 Files
and 6 Directories
this is sie of the dsl-0.8.4 fonts dir
so it allready dropped 1.5 Mb
some people ( me, adrakker) had small problems with the removal of some font-files from the 0.8.4.
nothing to worry about (i have fixt it). but a further cut in the fonts may give more problems.
Posted by ico2 on Dec. 15 2004,11:13
possibly use symlinks to use the rubbish fonts only but not confuse apps that use the other fonts?
Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 15 2004,13:36
Might depend on the type of font, though. If an application requires truetype and you link all truetype fonts to a terminal font, that program may not display any text.
Posted by ico2 on Dec. 15 2004,13:46
yeah. so maybe some experimentation is needed, i will download 0.9.1 (still using 0.8.3 atm) and experiment a bit to see how it is possible to trim down the font files without xcrewing stuff up. it would be great to reclaim that space, if we could save a 1.25mb or so then we could add chatzilla and bring back xmms and scite, then we would have everything, firefox for xmms and scite was probably a good trade off, much better to have firefox instead, but fonts that probably don't even get used most of the time would be great to lose and get back xmms and scite, and chatzilla would bring us up to date rather than using nirc which will probably be maintained for command line use and slow pcs, if still more space can be saved then who knows, maybe a couple more games chucked in there or something (although i don't think anybody wants tuxnes back)?
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 16 2004,12:24
We should get rid of all the TuxNES games. TuxNES is close to 5mb and those games aren't exactly fun (though they do offer enjoyment once in awhile). So make TuxNES a .MyDSL. Maybe we could put in liquid wars (1.8mb) and it is a ton of fun . It would still leave us with room too for something else.
Posted by ypx on Dec. 16 2004,13:59
tuxnes was dropped out of 0.9.1 ...
Posted by ico2 on Dec. 17 2004,11:26
yep, no more tuxnes dunno why it survived as long as it did :S
Posted by codestorm on Dec. 24 2004,22:48
Hmmm, I'd removed the 75 fonts to save space, and later noticed probs using xpdf to view pdfs. Took me a while to put 2+2 together.