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From: "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
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Subject: TrueType fonts & X
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:44:27 -0600
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Greetings,
I have FreeBSD 4.0-release installed on my computer.  I have KDE.
I have followed the handbook for setting up X.  One of the sections
talked about using TrueType fonts with X.  I followed along, but had
problems.  Here's what I did:

1.  installed xfstt from ports (XFree86 seems to be 3.3.5)
2.  installed ttmkfdir from ports
3.  created directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
4.  ftp'd TrueType fonts from my windows box to the TrueType directory.
5.  Changed owner on TrueType by:  Chown -R root
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
6.  Changed perms to 755.
7.  cd to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
8.  ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
9.  examined fonts.dir.  permissions & ownership match other files.
10.  started xfstt by:  xfstt --daemon
11.  xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7101
12.  xset fp+  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType

I then get this error:
xset bad font path element (#42) possible causes are:
directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
directory missing fonts.dir
incorrect font server address or syntax

I set permissions on the TrueType directory to 777, and still got the
message.
I killed off xfstt and restarted it:  xset fp+ unix/:7101 but still got the
message.

what am I missing here ?

thanks for any help,
Darryl


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