Re: Gnome 2 and Font Servers
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:11, Hubert Chan wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> writes:
>
> Mark> I'm wondering if I missed something somewhere in all that was
> Mark> replaced to put in Gnome 2, but while I have all of the typefaces
> Mark> available to non-Gnome and non-KDE applications, and to Gnome 1.4
> Mark> applications, I have only a very short list offered now in KDE 2.2
> Mark> and Gnome 2 - just Bitstream Charter, Century Schoolbook Light,
> Mark> Courier 10 Pitch, Cursor, Dingbats, Monospace, Nimbus selection,
> Mark> OldSlavic, Sans, Serif, Standard Symbols Litem Teams, URW Bookman,
> Mark> URW Chancery, URW Gothic and URW Palladio.
>
> KDE and Gnome 2 are probably using Xft. Look at (and edit)
> /etc/X11/XftConfig, in particular, add some "dir" lines.
>
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Well, I tried that, because XftConfig was limited to just:
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
and now contains:
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
followed by logging out, restarting xfs and xfstt, and gdm, only to find
myself no further ahead. A question: I did install transcoded fonts in
around the same time (I am trying to sort out supporting this system so
that two friends - one who uses Arabic, and the other that uses Russian,
can make use of it via ssh), and I must wonder if they are clobbering
something. I see no bugs filed against them, at least.
But this has me a bit perturbed - I run both xfs and xfstt on this
system, and they are both listed in XF86Config-4 ahead of entries for
the font directories, and yet it seems that neither KDE 2.2 nor Gnome 2
are drawing on either for fonts, or at least that I've done something
that clobbers that aspect of their functionality.
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