Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible - SOLVED
On 17 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:01:25 +0700
> > "Ali Milis" <almilis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg
> > > > difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or
> > > > in firefox.
> > >
> > > (1) What is in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > > (2) Have you done "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" ?
> >
> > In addition, the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is consulted by
> > applications which use fontconfig (all GTK- and QT-based applications,
> > as well as firefox).
> >
> > >
> > > > Microsoft-free zone
> > >
> > > Aha! Perhaps your signature does not match with msttcorefonts :)?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raja Ali M.I. Ilias, Bengkalis, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AliMilis
> > > Counted GNU/Linux Engineer # 405138 - http://counter.li.org/
> >
> >
>
> I have done the above. I have this entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
>
> FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>
> However I do not have this in /var/lib/defoma/
>
> I have purged and reinstallex msttcorefonts and run defoma-reconfigure.
> The script for msttcorefonts says it has been installed correctly, so
> where is it?
>
I've found the MS fonts; they are in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
I've put this into /etc/X11/Xorg and it seems to be coming up, although
I think there were more fonts there previously.
Anthony
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