Thanks very much Eric, your changes made the difference. xfontsel now works and shows the truetype fonts correctly. I would have never figured out that the link was necessary.
Here's a recap to summarize the changes. This is for XFree 4.x : 1. In your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) file : In section Modules, add Load "freetype" Add the directory where your truetype fonts are located : /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the fontpath. 2. In directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype, run ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir create the apropriate link ln -s fonts.dir fonts.scale 3. Don't forget to actually have truetype fonts in the /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory :-) >>>>> "Eric" == Eric C Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts >> under X ? >> >> Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. >> >> Add >> >> Load "xtt" >> >> to XF86Config Eric> Change this to Eric> Load "freetype" >> I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path. >> >> run >> >> ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir >> >> in my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory. Eric> Make sure that fonts.scale is a copy of, or link to, fonts.dir in each Eric> truetype directory. >> Try xfontsel and : >> >> the fonts are "selectable" but they won't appear, i.e. they don't seem >> to render at all. In fact xfontsel starts acting a little strange >> with repaints now working, etc... Eric> If you run Gnome, I suggest gfontsel from the gnome-utils package, Eric> especially if you have lots of fonts installed. Eric> HTH. Eric> -- Eric> Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u