Xorg and truetype

smite · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: Xorg and truetype

I'm using xorg and ion3. I followed the xorg and fonts mini-howto
When i run ion, all the fonts are ugly and hard to read. Here's what i have for fontpaths:

smite · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

Woah. Here's the output of fc-cache -fv:

beesea · Apprentice Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

Actually it seems that your fonts are probably installed correctly. You do have some TTFs installed (corefonts and vera fonts were detected ok). I don't know anything about ion, but I'd guess that your ion configuration is what's causing the font problems.

smite · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

Woah... that's weird. When I rebooted, truetype worked. Then i rebooted again, and they're gone.

Sipi · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 406 Location: Hungary

You have to add these fontpathes to /etc/fonts/local.conf, too. This controls the antialiasing for applications.
(See About font in X11 (Xfree, xorg, whatsoever topic.)

Sipi

blaster999 · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

Add the paths to /etc/X11/fs/config - may help.
Also, link the fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
I mean create symlinks to the font dirs, which reside in /usr/share/fonts/, in the dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (I solved some problems with Xorg fonts doing so).
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smite · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

No go... linked all the font dirs to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. Here's /etc/fonts/local.conf:

smite · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject:

ok... no TTF in kahakai or fluxbox.

any other font config files to try?

blaster999 · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:18 am Post subject:

Try this:
as root, cdc into a dir with true type fonts and execute
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale .
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir .

this will create font.scale and font.dir in the directory. Not sure if it helps though.
PS Do you have freetype installed?
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beesea · Apprentice Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

Also, do you have the line:

smite · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 11:00 am Post subject:

I have:

Xk2c · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 240

I have :