On Fri 23 Jan 2004 at 21:48:11, Von Fugal said: > show up in xfontsel and in a few apps (gimp and ooffice are the only two > I've found them in, and ooffice only on school computers and not at work) > but I have found no way to get at the fonts in other apps, most desirably > gaim, mozilla, and gvim. Does anyone know what might be the problem here, or > how to get around this nuisance? Any ideas would be appreciated.
I too have been messing around with fonts for the last week or so. It used to be that the only way to get fonts in X was through the X font server. But now there's the X font server and the freetype libs. The apps you listed are probably using freetype instead of the X fonts. What you need to do is run fc-cache -fv Make sure the dir you put the fonts in comes up in the list. If it doesn't, then you need to make some changes in the freetype config file, which is probably /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Add the dir you want searched; it's recursive, so putting "/usr/share/fonts" in the list will get "/usr/share/fonts/ttf" "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" "/usr/share/fonts/whatever_else_is_here" Then you should have access to the new fonts in Mozilla, gaim, and gvim. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
