Does anyone know how to get True Type fonts working with Mandrake 6.0?
After I figured out they were not on by default I tried to enable then
using xfs. I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and ran
'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale'. Then I used mkfontdir to create the
fonts.dir file. I restarted xfs and, viola! all of my subsequent
X-apps hung. I couldn't even log out of KDE; I had to go to a tty
screen and 'telinit 3' to get control back. When I tried 'telinit 5'
to restart X the server tried to start -- and tried and tried and
tried... This worked with xfstt on my RH 5.2 install but apparently
there is something else required for xfs.
I finally hit Crtl-Alt-Delete, booted to runlevel three and commented
out the ttfonts directory in /etc/X11/fs/config. I am back in
business but without True Type fonts
True Type is supposed to work in Mandrake but how?
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