Hi,

On Wednesday 05 June 2002 04:26 pm, John Ross Hunt wrote:

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Give this a try before giving up (works for me on 7.3):

Login to root:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype rm -f fonts.dir fonts.scale* ttmkfdir | grep -v "^[[:digit:]]*$" > fonts.scale.msttfonts SuSEconfig --module fonts

maybe this can help: I'm using SuSE72, XFree 4.2.0-64. On my system, the script /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts was broken. It results in creating invalid fonts.scale file, so your TT fonts don't "exists" in KDE. Instead of creating a new fonts.scale file, the script just adds to the existing fonts.scale file.

Just open /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.d, search for line "cat $FONTS_SCALE >> $FDIR/fonts.scale". If it exists, modify it to "cat $FONTS-SCALE > $FDIR/fonts.scale" (before you run SuSEconfig --module fonts).

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And see what happens. If you end up with these three files:

fonts.dir fonts.scale fonts.scale.msttfonts

This is just my hypothesis, if you ends-up with those 3 files already, you don't need to run "SuSEconfig --module fonts" (fonts.scale is actually the same as fonts.scale.msttfonts),. I think the scripts supposed to be run only if the fonts.scale and fonts.dir are unavailable.

Hence the "rm -f fonts.dir fonts.scale*" command. It makes SuSEconfig happy, and you only have to run it whenever you add more fonts, which in my case was once. I copied all my windows fonts over to the truetype directory, created the fonts.* files, and all was well.

-- Verdi March --

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you should be ok as long as the truetype directory is in your font path. If not, well then you have other problems.

Good luck,

-jrh