Re: Anti-aliased fonts just broke - how do I fix?
From: "Warren Dodge" <warren.dodge@akamail.com>
>
> The correct way to handle this appears to be:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200209/msg02925.html
>
> * install the package x-ttcidfont-conf if it's not installed
> * replace FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> with FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> in Xf86Config-4
> * remove FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" from Xf86Config-4
> * replace dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> with dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> in XftConfig
> * remove dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" from XftConfig
>
> I knew someone would know how defoma was supposed to work!
>
That seems unnecessarily complicated. Why not just symlink
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the location of
the actual fonts? I jstill ust use my windows (vfat) \windows\fonts
directory - that's not at all the best way to do it, since it would be
better to have the fonts on an ext2 partition, but every time somebody sets
up a particular path you _know_ some other software is going to rely on it
eventually - better to keep the symlinks there to prevent breaking anything
else.
--
derek
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