Date: 03 Jan 2002 15:06:03 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Fonts and XFree4 Message-ID: <1010088363.86152.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020103195958.ENVK308.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there> References: <20020103195958.ENVK308.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there>
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On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 15:03, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Joe Clarke wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:08, Jonathan Belson wrote: > > >>I've just upgraded my XFree86 installation to 4.1.0 via ports. > >>Pretty much everything is working apart from a problem with my > >>truetype fonts: Mozilla can see them just fine, but KDE can't > >>(in other words, they don't appear in the font requesters at > >>all). Applications which use motif (eg. nedit, netscape) have > >>little squares instead of characters in the menu and title text. > >> > > Have you read: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html > > Thanks, yes I have. I pretty much did exactly what it said... > > > I'm using XFree 4.1, and I am able to use my TrueType fonts just fine. > > Admittedly, I'm using Gnome and not KDE. > > Have you got any qt apps installed? Do they work with true type fonts? I have linux-opera installed, and it finds all my MS TrueType fonts. Did you do the ttmkfdir step? That's important. there's also some more on TT fonts with XFree 4.x at: http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/fonts.html Joe > > > --Jon > > <http://www.witchspace.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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