Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X?
I have tried the following to no avail:
installed a couple of ttfonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype (monotype.ttf,
voyager.ttf)
then run the following commands:
xfstt --sync --dir /usr/share/fonts/truetype (this adds ttinfo.dir and
ttname.dir)
added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to font path in XF86Config
startx > errlog.txt 2>&1
looked in errlog.txt, found:
Warning: 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype")
OK, no problem me thinks, exit X and run 'mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype'
(as root, of course)
but it doesn't do anything.
Start X again, read xfstt man page again, it says:
Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt
then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+
unix:/7100 or (assuming the X11 server runs on host
127.0.0.1) xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7100
try both, gives me following error:
xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
hmm, read 'man mkfontdir':
The kinds of font files read by mkfontdir depend on con
figuration parameters, but typically include PCF (suffix
".pcf"), SNF (suffix ".snf") and BDF (suffix ".bdf"). If
a font exists in multiple formats, mkfontdir will first
choose PCF, then SNF and finally BDF.
How do I pass parameters to mkfontdir? the man page doesn't tell. So, it seems
to boil down to how to make mkfontdir capable of recognizing true type fonts...
ideas? solutions?
TIA
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