Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Stephen Gran (gashuffer09@home.com) [010825 08:18]:
> Are you running xfs-xtt? It's the true type font server for X -
> runs seperately from xfs, and is apparently the only thinf that can
> correctly interpret true type fonts.

If you're running a standalone box, and not 'serving' fonts to other
machines, xfs (or xfs-xtt) is not needed. I have purged xfs from my
machine and am using TT fonts just fine. XFree86 v4 and higher take care
of them for me.

> Install, and add these lines to the font path of XF86Config-4:
> FontPath "unix/:7110" 
> FontPath "unix/:7100"

Here's mine:

# FontPath      "unix/:7100"            # local font server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
        # these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
        # FontPath      "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        # FontPath      "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

'xlsfonts | grep arial' shows dozens of variations of arial. For
example:

-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--24-240-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--6-60-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--7-70-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--8-80-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--9-90-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

Regards
Hall