Marshall Heartley
Grab the new Gimp 1.3.x packages. They rock. I really like them. They are compiled with GTK2 and if you run the gnome-settings-daemon in the background then not only do they see all the fonts but the program actually looks nice as well. I installed the 1.3.x packages a month ago and they've not given me any issue at all.
Well I installed the new Gimp packages and now the fonts do not show up. (the new fonts that is)
Do I have to run the fonts module of SuSEconfig
Yes, you need the part of it which runs fc-cache. See also the man page of 'fonts-config' which is the script run by 'SuSEconfig --module fonts'. It explains in detail what it does.
even though I have issued the appropriate xset commands?
For example "xset +fp /home/marshall/Fonts" and then "xset fp rehash".
That is only relevant when X11 core fonts are used. But a GTK2 application doesn't do that anymore, it uses only Xft2/fontconfig.
I thought that the above commands would make the fonts available in the directories available to X? Did something change where I cannot dynamically set fonts in this manner?
Xft2/fontconfig works differently.
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Mike Fabian