Re: fonts

[Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

On   7 May, this message from Daniel Bondurant echoed through cyberspace:
> I have having problems with fonts.  I have all the font packages installed 
> (from unstable), but gnone, enlightenment, and wmaker can't find them.  I 
> also have xfs running.
> 
> where do I define the path the font, and where do the .deb packages put them?
> Is there someplace other then XFree86-4 that the font paths need to be defined

I have xfs-xtt running on my 'testing'-system (AFAICT this is standard
xfs patched with TruType support).

Fonts are added to xfs in the file:

/etc/X11/fs-xtt/config:

..
# paths to search for fonts
catalogue = /font/dir/file/,/font/dir/anotherfile/,...
..

Michel

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