Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Greg Macek <it-guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This worked great! Haven't had a chance to restart X yet (didn't need
to), but thanks for the tip! Any info as to why an X Font server would
be wreaking havoc with this? I always thought it was necessary to
display TTF, even with XF 4.x. Perhaps I've misunderstood this whole
time. 

- Greg

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:18, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> On Thu. Sep. 19, 2002 at 23:19:54 -0500 GMT, a lone cry was heard from 
> Greg Macek <it-guy@xxxxxxxxxx> in the wasteland called the Internet:
> 
> > I've tried this and a lot of other things on my machine (7.3, XF4.2)
> > to get my TTF working again, but no avail. Following the first part of
> > the instructions below gets me a fonts.scale file that is around 26K
> > in size, listing all the fonts in the truetype directory. That's fine.
> > However, fonts.dir is still set to 2 bytes, only containing a "0". 
> 
> (1) Go to the directory of your truetype fonts.
> 
> (2) Run:
> 
> 	ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir
> 
> (3) Make sure that you have loaded the freetype module in the "Module"
> section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config, ie:
> 
> 	load "freetype"
> 
> (4) Make sure that the path of your truetype fonts is in the  "Files"
> section.
> 
> (5) If the truetype module was loaded before, run:
> 
> 	xset fp rehash
> 
> If the truetype module was not load before hand, restart X.
> 
> These instructions only apply if you are not using a font server.
> 
> Charles
> 
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