Re: Has anyone figured out why fonts are broken...

[R Sean Eidemiller <mojo@halcyon.cc>]

I'm running KDE 3.1.2 and TT fonts are working great.  Not only that, they look beautiful thanks to the new antialiased rendering provided by Xft2/fontconfig.

I didn't use the msttcorefonts package (or whatever it is) but rather stole them from a win2k machine and placed them all in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf.  After that, I ran ttmkfdir, added the directory to my font path in XF86Config-4 (I don't use xfs or xfstt) and all was good.

To get antialiasing to work, you will have to add the path to your TT fonts in /etc/fonts/local.conf file, like this...

<dir>/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf</dir>

Restart the Xserver, and you should be good to go...

-Sean (rseidemiller@cs.millersville.edu)


> ...because I haven't seen a truetype font since KDE 3.1,
> and NONE of the tips passed out on this list has worked to get them
> back.
>
> I'm on a testing/unstable box running xserver-svga and xfstt.
>
> gsfonts-x11 and 100dpi fonts are visible and rendered.
>
> The Qt font config prg lists everything and shows them as selected,
> but Helvetica is rendered in their place.
>
> xfontsel is working (everything installed shows up and is rendered).
>
>
> HELP, please
>
>
> - Bruce