Greg Olszewski wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 05:18:48PM -0300, Jose Albores wrote:
> > I could use true type fonts under X with xfstt.
> > But RedHat 6.0 install-guide says:
> > So it seems it would be possible to use ttf WITHOUT xfstt.
>
> Beats me. Redhat maybe shipping a modified version, but here I cannot
> serve TrueType fonts with xfs, I _have_ to use xfstt
I couldn't either in previous RH versions, but
rhl-install-guide-en-6.0/manual/doc012.html says that true type fonts
"are now supported in RHL 6.0".
It also says that "... FreeType engine is a library..." installed, and I
don't remember it was present in previous versions of RHL.
And when configuring the X-server, Xconfigurator by default writes in
XF86Config:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
while in RH 5.2 these were multiple lines with conventional paths to
fonts directories.
> > At home, xfs is running properly at startup. If it wouldn't X cannot be
> > opened.
> > As adding tcp/localhost:7100 as a new path in /etc/X11/XF86Config just
> try
> FontPath "unix/:7100"
didn't work either...
>
> > crashed the X-server, I tried a few different steps:
>
> what was the output from the crash(if you need more help)
>
The only "error" lines I could find was that:
"X cannot load default font 'fixed'"
"Can't find localhost:7100"
...
> > 1. I added a new fonts directory under the fonts one:
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
>
> you'll need to tell xfs about the directory(If xfs can speak truetype)
> look in /etc/X11/xfs/config(on my box).
> There is a catalogue line, you'll need to add the truetype directory to
> the list.
>
> > and i did copy some ttf there.
> > 2. I issued the command:
> > ttmkfdir > /path-to/truetype/fonts.dir
>
> I don't have ttmkfdir on my machine, never hurd of it, is it another redhat
> one?(Xconfigurator, linuxconf...)
>
ttmkfdir is in /usr/sbin and belongs to rpm: freetype-1.2-6 .
> > [...]
> > Where can I browse the previous e-mails from this list?
>
> www.mail-archive.com/linux-newbie%40vger.rutgers.edu/
>
> (except it doesn't seem to be responding right now)
Many thanx!
--
Jose Albores
