in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with "could not open default font 'fixed'".
i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt &), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern "-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" which produced "no match". it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts.
any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated.
also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter?
please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia,
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