From owner-freebsd-gnome Thu Feb 20 6:40:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3841937B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv02.webonaut.com (kirk.webonaut.com [212.41.243.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AC243F3F for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from klammer@webonaut.com) Received: from [212.41.243.28] (sisko.webonaut.com [212.41.243.28]) by sv02.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5B8766E7; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:40:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: fontconfig/fc-cache: i really think i'm too stupid for this! From: Franz Klammer To: "Mezz bsdforums.org" Cc: FreeBSD-gnome In-Reply-To: <1045710181.601.1.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> References: <1045710181.601.1.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1045752042.10482.34.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 20 Feb 2003 15:40:43 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 04:03, Franz Klammer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 02:52, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote: > > Joe already has answered, but just want to add some comments. > > Xft2/Fontconfig are seperate from (and are replacing) XftConfig, Xft1 and > > paths of font in XF86config. > > > > Xft2/Fontconfig, you don't really need to do anything. All you have to do is > > drop the fonts in the font directory and that's it. The new fonts will > > appear in the font tool by automatic without restart X. But, you still have > > to edit XF86Config by add paths and restart X for apps that are depending on > > Xft1 or just plain X's sake. > > > > Here are few good links about Xft2/Fontconfig: > > ok! it's late ... again! i will try/read more tomorrow. > i'm too tired to think clear tonight. thanks to you and > also to joe. > > now because i've done what i should do. the only chance to write you > this mail is xdm and twm. back to the beginning: i'm overseen something? > > what i've done: > 1. reinstall fontconfig that i'm sure to get a fresh fonts.conf > and let them untouched. > 2. for testing reasons i've renamed local.conf > 3. start fc-cache -f -v by hand and the output looks good. > 4. the result: > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig > library is not correctly configured. You may need to > edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information > about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual > page and on http://fontconfig.org > well ... since today 10 o'clock it works how it should. but i've now idea why. i moved some fonts from the main fonts directory to ~/.fonts. after i have this done all programs are coming up with the Winding which was one of the fonts i've moved. after starting fc-cache the other fonts are also there. it works now with the standard fonts.conf and the lokal.conf from the bitstream-vera. thanks Mezz and Joe. your answers gives me a better understanding. franz. > > www.fontconfig.org > > www.keithp.com > > http://xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/ > > > > Cheers, > > Mezz > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message