#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

### Chapter 24. Graphical Environments

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# Xorg Legacy

## Introduction to Xorg Legacy

Xorg's ancestor (X11R1, in 1987) at first only provided bitmap fonts, with a tool (bdftopcf) to assist in their installation. With the introduction of xorg-server-1.19.0 and libXfont2 many people will not need them. There are still a few old packages which might require, or benefit from, these deprecated fonts and so the following packages are shown here.

### Note

The font-adobe-100dpi package installs 100 dots per inch versions of Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook and Times fonts.

The remaining font packages here provide 75dpi versions of those fonts, and various miscellaneous fonts - mostly for legacy encodings. Those are primarily to silence warnings when testing Xorg. In previous versions of BLFS a lot more legacy fonts were installed.

Please consult the BLFS-7.10 systemd book at https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.10-systemd/x/x7font.html if you wish to install any of those other fonts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://www.x.org/pub/individual/

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/

- Download size: 4.2 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 30 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

### Xorg Legacy Dependencies

#### Required

xcursor-themes-1.0.6

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Legacy

## Downloading Xorg Legacy

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

    cat > legacy.dat << "EOF"
    2a455d3c02390597feb9cefb3fe97a45 app/ bdftopcf-1.1.tar.bz2
    1347c3031b74c9e91dc4dfa53b12f143 font/ font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
    6c9f26c92393c0756f3e8d614713495b font/ font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
    cb7b57d7800fd9e28ec35d85761ed278 font/ font-jis-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
    0571bf77f8fab465a5454569d9989506 font/ font-daewoo-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
    a2401caccbdcf5698e001784dbd43f1a font/ font-isas-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
    c88eb44b3b903d79fb44b860a213e623 font/ font-misc-misc-1.1.2.tar.bz2
    EOF

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

    mkdir legacy &&
    cd    legacy &&
    grep -v '^#' ../legacy.dat | awk '{print $2$3}' | wget -i- -c \
         -B https://www.x.org/pub/individual/ &&
    grep -v '^#' ../legacy.dat | awk '{print $1 " " $3}' > ../legacy.md5 &&
    md5sum -c ../legacy.md5

## Installation of Xorg Legacy

### Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

1. Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).

2. Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.9.9 package.

3. Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

One way to handle this situation is to create a short bash function that automatically selects the appropriate method. Once the command is set in the environment, it does not need to be set again.

    as_root()
    {
      if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
      elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
      else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
      fi
    }

    export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

    bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

    for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../legacy.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
    do
      packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
      tar -xf $package
      pushd $packagedir
        ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
        make
        as_root make install
      popd
      rm -rf $packagedir
      as_root /sbin/ldconfig
    done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

    exit

## Contents

Installed Programs: bdftopcf
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: `$XORG_PREFIX`/share/fonts/100dpi, `$XORG_PREFIX`/share/fonts/75dpi, `$XORG_PREFIX`/share/fonts/misc

### Short Descriptions

bdftopcf | converts an X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format

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