Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:01:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Will McCutchen <mccutchen@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Font organization Message-ID: <1081386109.47981.26.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1081377818.4074841a2332a@webmailapp1.cc.utexas.edu> References: <1081377818.4074841a2332a@webmailapp1.cc.utexas.edu>
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--=-rhvqfpUgBD7LAFpYmxsh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:43, Will McCutchen wrote: > Hello, all. First off, let me say, thanks for making GNOME 2.6 such a > pleasure to use on FreeBSD. >=20 > I have a question: Is there any way to clean up the mess of fonts > installed with XFree86 4.3? >=20 > I would really like to be able to only use TrueType or OpenType fonts on > my computer. I don't use Type1 fonts, and I don't use bitmapped fonts, > if I can avoid it. Since XFree86 and GNOME both support TrueType and > OpenType fonts, it seems like I should be able to eliminate all of > those hundreds of (seemingly) random font files strewn about in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. >=20 > I wish that I could just fill /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts with my .ttf and > .otf files, and have those be the only fonts on my system. >=20 > I understand that there may be some of those "other" fonts that I need > to keep on my system (maybe just to satisfy X on startup), but I'd > really like to clean some of them up. >=20 > I hope this message made some sense. Thanks for any help you can give. This is really only a question you can answer. GNOME lets you choose whatever fonts you want to use, and fontconfig/Xft supports TTF/OTF fonts. Therefore, if all you're using are GTK+/GNOME apps, you can get rid of all non-TTF/OTF fonts. If you're using other applications, you'll have to keep other font files around. Which files depends on the applications. It's probably safest to keep the 100dpi and misc fonts, then just add the various TTF fonts you want on top of those. Joe >=20 >=20 > -Will McCutchen > mccutchen@mail.utexas.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-rhvqfpUgBD7LAFpYmxsh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAdKR8b2iPiv4Uz4cRAqV9AJ9ZOb/mdvH1U418w0XKpNcgTIJImgCcC+Tz p0h2VaMMGlqz68aII33mtXU= =7wLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rhvqfpUgBD7LAFpYmxsh--
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