Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Not exactly Debian-specific....
>
> Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning
> xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the
> DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether
> you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what.
>
> It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font
> support is sort of like "cheating", i.e. "Linux uses its own
> native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font
> system to it."
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
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I am running both xfs and xfstt. You can specify where X will get its fonts from in XF86Config. TTF fonts render much better, so it's nice to use them whenever you want or have to. One excellent example is Netscape. If you are on a network, you can set up a centralized font server, and point all your X servers to that server.
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