Re: Why fonts available with X and not with KDE/GNOME ?

[Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>]

Hervé Piedvache wrote:
> Le dimanche 18 Avril 2004 03:02, Hervé Piedvache a écrit :
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a trouble with fonts ... I can see some fonts under X ... with
> > xfontsel for example ... or  with this command :
> >
> > $ xlsfonts | grep -i adobe | grep 'iso8859-15'
> > -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-demi-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-demi-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc bookman-demi-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc bookman-demi-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc bookman-light-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc bookman-light-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > -adobe-itc zapf chancery-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> >
> > But under KDE or GNOME ... with the for example the font selector of KDE;
> > or inside applications like Kate ... I never see those fonts ... called for
> > example itc zapf chancery [adobe] on other system I have ...
> >
> > Does someone have any idea to solve this trouble ?
>
>
> I have one point to add to my trouble ... I have a laptop installed last week 
> from a classical woody install CD, and upgrade immediatly in Unstable ... 
> without starting X during the complete install ... Then I have itc zapf 
> chancery [adobe] or Helvetica [adobe] and Fixed [Jis] or Fixed [Sony] on this 
> configuration ... that I don't see on my PC !!
>
> I have copied the /etc/fonts folder from the laptop to my PC, and also 
> compared the fonts packages installed on the two computer to be in same 
> situation ... but still without any result on my PC !! :o((
>
> So not a fontconfig trouble ... so Where is the trouble ?
>
> Thanks for your help !

KDE and Gnome use Xft(2)/fontconfig to get their fonts, not the 
traditional fontserver provided by X or xfs. So you have to edit 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf and include the path to 
this fonts there too.
If you just enter <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> it will 
recursively scan all subdirectories for fonts (I for myself don't like 
including all type1 fonts though)

Cheers,
Michael

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