Re: MS Verdana fonts and friends don't work with Gnome 2?

[Michael Toomim <toomim@uclink4.berkeley.edu>]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After the last upgrade, my Gnome 2 programs seem to have lost the
> ability to use the truetype fonts from Microsoft (installed via
> msttcorefonts). They don't show up in the font chooser dialog under
> desktop settings, either. Anyone know what's wrong?

I was able to fix this by installing x-ttcidfont-conf, and then debconf 
gave me the following helpful message:

  x FontPath of TrueType and CID managed by defoma is changed 
     x
  x 
     x
  x TrueType and CID font paths which defoma manages are changed again. 
It  x
  x now becomes: 
     x
  x 
     x
  x   FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" 
     x
  x   FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" 
     x
  x 
     x
  x 
     x
  x Please edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, /etc/X11/fs/config and/or 
     x
  x /etc/X11/fs-xtt/config. 
     x

I edited all the relevant files to contain the font directories, and 
everything worked again (after restarting X).

Good luck,

Michael