The mail you are responding to, was sent on January 3rd ( not sure why
but have seen some really old mails slip threw recently (?)). There was a
thread about this a while back. You might want to scan the archives...
and double check the packages instructions. You have to do a few things
besides just run --sync to have a working xfstt font server.
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Ken Ingram wrote:
>
> How did you get the bloody thing to work?
>
> I run xfstt --sync and it complains that it couldn't find any valid
> truetype fonts.
> In fact I have 240 different ttf files there.
>
> Steve Crane wrote:
>
> > I am running SuSE 5.3 and have installed the xfstt TrueType font
> > server. It works fine if I start it manually and then run
> >
> > xset fp+ unix/:7100
> >
> > However I want it to start automatically and am not sure which script
> > I should run the file from. I saw a post on Usenet that said the font
> > server run command should be added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
> > The post said this would work on RH and Slackware. Not finding an
> > rc.local file in /etc/rc.d I created it.
> >
> > I then added a new font path to XF86Config with
> >
> > FontPath "unix/:7100"
> >
> > When I ran startx (after a restart as my kids had been in Win98 in the
> > meantime) it failed with an invalid font path. I ran xfstt& manually
> > and startx worked, so clearly the rc.local file did not work.
> >
> > Where should I have added the run commands? I want to add the
> > following.
> >
> > # TrueType font installation
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt &
> > # End of TrueType font installation
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Steve Crane
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.datapro.co.za/~stevec
> >
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