I more or less figured this stuff out. If someone is looking for a useful little project, defining aliases for the antique core font system that Xt/Motif and TK apps often still use would be very helpful. I don't have time to spend to do more than I have.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/864 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1291 Flash 9 no longer crashes, and I expect many (but not all) of the old applications will work. - Jim On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 08:41 -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On 4/5/07, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been beating my head against the wall trying to resurrect my > > knowledge in this are (tempered by 20 years, and its evolution in the > > intervening period). But it isn't clear I can (re)learn this stuff very > > quickly. > > > > Basically, the ideal would be to alias the common X11 core bitmap fonts > > (e.g. those canonically found in the X11/misc and X11/100dpi font > > directories) to vague approximations in the DejaVu outline fonts. Since > > we run so high resolution, the bitmaps generated won't be to terrible. > > I seem to recall at some point that X servers could understand > truetype fonts and use them directly(?). You can find lots of old > docs (try Google queries with terms like "xf86config" in them) that > describe how to configure this. > > My guess is you can do something like: > 1) cd /path/to/ttf/files > 2) ttmkfdir > fonts.dir > 3) xset fp+ `pwd`; xset fp rehash > 4) xlsfonts (and find out the font name) > 5) make a fonts.alias that redirects fixed to that ttf alias -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
