Re: Has anyone figured out why fonts are broken...
afaict (or know)...
xserver-svga is a v3.3.6 server, so I need a tt font server.
I don't think anti-aliasing works with v3 servers.
I don't recall looking at /etc/fonts/... though.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, R Sean Eidemiller wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>
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