Always, in the past, I would unpack bitstream-vera fonts URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera\ /1.10/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10.tar.bz2" into the TTF directory and make a link X11-TTF in /usr/share/fonts pointing to the TTF directory as mentioned in the book. The resulting fonts would always be high quality and trouble free.
While it sounds like a great idea, Xorg-7.5 changes the default font installation dir to /usr/share/fonts/X11 which confuses things including xorg-server-1.7.1 and firefox (1.5 and 3). http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg7ck9hb_153f42jwcwr To compensate for the change, I created directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts and created a link X11 pointing to where the TTF directory ended up which was /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF. I also had to specify in /etc/X11/xorg, e.g., FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/xxx/" because xorg-server didn't find its expected /usr/lib/X11/fonts/xxx. The confusion originates with new font-util which creates /usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontutil.pc having the fontrootdir equate by default to /usr/share/fonts/X11 and all the font packages determine the font installation dir from that. However, xorg-server-1.7.1 is unenlightened # xorg-server configure # --with-fontdir=FONTDIR Path to top level dir where fonts are installed # (default: ${libdir}/X11/fonts) Firefox also seems unenlighted in the above screenshot. Oddly, firefox looked ok on some pages, but not on other pages such as the (b)lfs books. Boldly removing my created /usr/lib/X11/fonts dir and executing mv /usr/share/fonts/X11 /usr/lib/X11/fonts and ln -s /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF permitted firefox to seem better http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg7ck9hb_151gfphzndg This hack may not be perfect and as yet I do not know if configuring xorg-server with --with-fontdir=/usr/share/fonts/X11 would do the job. Obviously, a full xorg do-over would be a big job. If I do the do-over, I am inclined to configure font-util with -with-fontrootdir=/usr/lib/X11/fonts to get the traditional behavior that has always worked in the past. Fonts have me clearly confused. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
