Re: [gentoo-dev] TrueType Fonts in X

[Alan]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:22:58AM -0600, Christopher Dudley wrote:
> Greetings,
>     I noticed recently that when Gentoo installs X, it also installs a big
> bunch of TTF fonts along with it. (From the Microsoft Free Font collection,
> nice. :).
>
>    The problem is, while it installs the fonts, there does not seem to be a
> way to use them. When you run the xfontsel program, it only lists the BDF
> fonts or whatever it is that X comes with.
>
>    Any ideas why this happens or how to fix it? It could be using the TTF
> fonts already, but does it somehow map them to other names?
>
> Anyway, this should be an interesting one. :)

You need to add them to your fontpath so that they are avilable to
applications in X.  There are a couple of ways to do this:
 - at the command prompt type 
 		xset fp+ /path/to/the/truetype/fonts
		xset fp rehash
	This will only work for that session though. 
 - the better way to do this is to add them to your /etc/X11/XF86Config
   file.  Close to the top there'll be something like:

Section "Files"
	FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

	Just add the directory with the fonts there.

Another thing to do is add the font path to the /etc/X11/XftConfig file.
Just add it at the top in the same format as the rest of the lines:

dir "/some/path/to/fonts"

Also, search for 'truetype' at forums.gentoo.org and you'll find lots of
help there as well!

alan

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