Today I made my truetype fonts accessible by X by changing the /etc/init.d/xfstt and changing this line : portno=7101 to this : portno=127.0.0.1:7101 or by : portno=inet/127.0.0.1:7101 I hope this will help you. but I have a probleme with the freefont package. the font that it install are available only for root but not other user. Could you help me about this ?