The mail you are responding to, was sent on January 3rd ( not sure why but have seen some really old mails slip threw recently (?)). There was a thread about this a while back. You might want to scan the archives... and double check the packages instructions. You have to do a few things besides just run --sync to have a working xfstt font server. On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Ken Ingram wrote:
How did you get the bloody thing to work?
I run xfstt --sync and it complains that it couldn't find any valid truetype fonts. In fact I have 240 different ttf files there.
Steve Crane wrote:
I am running SuSE 5.3 and have installed the xfstt TrueType font server. It works fine if I start it manually and then run
xset fp+ unix/:7100
However I want it to start automatically and am not sure which script I should run the file from. I saw a post on Usenet that said the font server run command should be added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. The post said this would work on RH and Slackware. Not finding an rc.local file in /etc/rc.d I created it.
I then added a new font path to XF86Config with
FontPath "unix/:7100"
When I ran startx (after a restart as my kids had been in Win98 in the meantime) it failed with an invalid font path. I ran xfstt& manually and startx worked, so clearly the rc.local file did not work.
Where should I have added the run commands? I want to add the following.
# TrueType font installation /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt & # End of TrueType font installation
Thanks.
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