Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:06:44AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:39:29AM -0700, Tom said
> > I've been patching my /etc/X11/Xftconfig as well as XF86Config-4
> > to manually point to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera.
> > Your suggestion says to only update XF86Config-4. Should I point
> > XftConfig to /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType as well?
>
> Yup. Do you have any Xft1-based apps left, though? It was only used
> for a very short time, and I can't think of anything that still uses it.
>
> fontconfig, used by xft2, seems to come pre-configured to use defoma's
> tt fonts.
For some apocryphal reason I think I need it for fluxbox to be pretty.
But I might need to rexamine my assumptions :-)
Or perhaps I'm getting confused when I messed around with xterm's XFT
ability.
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