Re: font available in fc-list but not in xlsfonts

[Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:27:44AM EST, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:56:53PM EST, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> > I first tried to install ttf-droid_1.00~b112+dfsg-0ubuntu1_all.deb and
> > then tried the manual way: to unpackage the font to
> > /usr/share/truetype/droid and add this path to FontPath in
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. In both way I got the same result.
> 
> > zhangweiwu@casablanca:~$ xlsfonts |grep -Ei 'droid.?s'
> > zhangweiwu@casablanca:~$ fc-list |grep -Ei 'droid.?s'
> > Droid Sans:style=Regular
> > Droid Serif:style=Bold
> > Droid Sans Fallback:style=Regular
> > Droid Sans:style=Bold
> > Droid Sans Mono:style=Regular
> > Droid Serif:style=Italic
> > Droid Serif:style=Bold Italic
> > Droid Serif:style=Regular
> > 
> > What could be the cause and what should I check next? Thanks.
> 
> Did you bounce your Xorg session?

If cycling X is not an option, try:

$ xset fp rehash

CJ