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pivertd
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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: Why to I need to delete TTF folder to get nice fonts in KDE |
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Hi !
At each new xorg version, the
/usr/share/fonts/TTF folder is recreated, and all my fonts in kde are uggly. (I use the default Luxi Sans fonts)
So, at each xorg update, I need to delete the /usr/share/fonts/TTF and restart my X to get back nice fonts.
Why ? Is this a bug ?
Here are my fontpath in X :
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
# FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
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HermanR
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Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know, you don't need any FontPath-settings anymore, not even FontPath "unix/:-1". Did you try commenting out all the FontPath-entries?
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GhePeU
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Location: Mestre, Italy
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it depends on luxi broken hinting or on freetype, but with freetype >=2.1.7 luxi fonts are horrible. This happens with the TTF font but not with the Type 1. The TTF is preferred, so when you've got both of them on your system, freetype pick the truetype version. When you delete that directory, freetype can't find the truetype file and so it use the type 1 fonts.
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Phlogiston
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Location: Europe, Swizerland
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hey thats a very interesting thread, it's the same as I have to do after every xorg merge. Someone found out that it's the Problem for luxi fonts. But why? Because they are also in another directory? If this is equal for everybody, we could add rm -rf /usr/fonts/TTF to the ebuild!?! 
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