Re: Fonts in Gnome 2.0 Alpha

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

fflewddur <fflewddur dropline net> writes:

> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 23:11, Chris Chabot wrote:
> > Browsing the gtk 1.3 lists, i see it is a 'known gtk 1.3 problem' (no 
> > solutions yet). However it is interesting to note that whithout AA, the 
> > ttf fonts are shown (though with the 'Cannot load font for XLFD '-font 
> > string-' error), and with AA enabled, the TTF fonts are not shown...
> > 
> > Anyways had this problem and know how to fix this?
> > 
> 
> that's odd.  without aa, i can use my true-type fonts perfectly. 
> however, when i enable aa i lose all of my standard fonts and instead
> get the list nautilus 1.0.x uses when you select the "smoother graphics"
> option.  i'm using slackware 8.0 (heavily modified) with xfree86 4.1 and
> freetype 2.0.6.

You need to point Xft at the directories where the fonts live by
editing /etc/X11/XftConfig (or, you may find it in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11).

Regards,
                                        Owen

[Eventually xfs/the Xserver will be fixed to use the same configuration]