Re: X Windows Wont Accept New Font Path
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 20:47, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> I created the directory /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts, move the fonts
> from /c/windows/fonts to this directory, ran python mkfontalias.py, grep
> 'iso8859-1"' fonts.alias > new.alias, and ran mv new.alias fonts.alias
> . Then I purged xfs and commented out FontPath unix/;7100 and added
> FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts to XF86Config and rebooted the
> computer. No ttf fonts.
You're using XF86Config? Are you still running XFree86 3.i?
I've got ttf fonts installed too but I'm also still using xfs. Just
needed to add the fontpath to /etc/X11/fs/config instead.
> I then tried xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts and gor Error 82.
> Does anyone know what this means and/or how to fix the problem?
Just a shot in the dark: do you have the freetype module loaded?
--
Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (")
Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X
http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \
Reply to: