Re: tt font/xft font not available everywhere

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

Hmm.. yea, I guess that makes sense.  I'll have to try it out when I get
home.  Thanks!

alan

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:53:55AM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> iirc correctly, the app using the font has to be restarted to see newly
> added fonts.  the font selector works because it was launched after the
> font was added.  at least, this is the case on redhat8's hacked up
> gnome2.0 ;-)
> 
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:47, Alan wrote:
> > Hi all.   Just got gnome2.2 up with gentoo and it looks and feels
> > *awsome*.  Huge congrats to all involved.  One thing that is a bit odd
> > that I thought I'd ask here though.
> > 
> > As I understand it, if you dump fonts to ~/.fonts they automagically
> > become available to xft2 (gnome2.2) apps. 
> > 
> > So I copied a favorite font of mine, SF Grunge Sans into .fonts loaded
> > up the font prefs app, and it was there!  I set it as my desktop font
> > and hit apply... and my desktop font changed to the default (I think) of
> > just plain old sans.
> > 
> > If you hit http://arcterex.net/stuff/ttfont-not-working.png you'll see
> > what I mean.  The font size works fine, but for whatever reason, it
> > shows up properly in the font prefs (indicating to me that the font is
> > loaded and available), but not to the application (nautilus). 
> > 
> > Any ideas?  Do I need to restart X or nautilus to get the font available
> > maybe?
> > 
> > Alan
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