Re: true type fonts with stable

["Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:53:39PM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> I'm running stable and I have xfs-xtt running and I've apt-got
> msttcorefonts but when I start X with the truetype directory in the
> XF86Config file I get
> 'could not open default font fixed'

Are you running a version 3 XFree86 server?  If so, the XF86Config
file needs to be told about the font server, not the TTF directory.
Something like:

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "unix/:7100"
EndSection

7100 should be the port that xfs listens on.  I may be mis-remembering
it, so check the man page.

Then, list the TTF directories in /etc/X11/xfs/config.

With version XFree86 version 4.x, truetype support is built in and you
don't need xfs at all.  Instead, you use 

Section "Module"
  <other modules ...>
  Load "freetype"
EndSection
...

and then you DO list the TTF dirs in the "Files" section.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u