I've got Debian sid (2.4.18 kernel) with kde 2.2.2 installed on my Omnibook 500. I'm having a hard time getting fonts to behave. Is there a decent FAQ covering font installation? I'd really love something with a troubleshooting diagram.
I have anti-aliasing working. My problem is KDE itself only seems to recognize about 10 fonts in the look & Feel:Fonts panel (courier 10 pitch, nimbus, a few others). KDE will render Helvitica but I can't select it in the picker. KWord also seems to let me select from about 10 different fonts.
This is a KDE problem since gfontsel seems to recognize over 100 fonts, including my true type fonts, but it has problems with some (not all) 2 byte fonts. gfontview seems to render everything as long as I point it at the right directory. Crufty old xfontsel seems to recongnize all my fonts and renders them just fine.
"xlsfonts | wc -l" gives 5462, so there are plenty of fonts installed as far as X is concerned.
How do I get KDE to at least recognize my TT fonts?
Thanks for any help
Charlie.
Charlie,
It just so happens that I have recently did a "fresh" install of Debian Woody, then upgraded to "testing" and installed the msttcorefonts package AND ran into the same problem as you! I had a "working" KDE system before the re-install, so I had to re-create my previous steps.
As it turned out, all I had to do was modify the /etc/X11/XftConfig file and add the new Defoma path names to get access to the TrueType fonts from the status you described. Basically, I had to make the changes recommended during the x-ttcidfont package config when it was installed! I also had to start (restart?) the xfs server to read in the new / modified file.
Here is my /etc/X11/XftConfig file:
# $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/XftConfig.cpp,v 1.8 2001/11/21 23:41:12 keithp Exp $
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" # dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
# # alias 'fixed' for 'mono' # match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";
# # Check users config file # includeif "~/.xftconfig"
# # Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local # fonts # match any family == "charter" edit family += "bitstream charter"; match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter";
There is some other stuff that you can do with this file to clean up hinting and aliases, that I have not done here. That is described in the /usr/share/doc/anti-aliasing-howto/XftConfig.examples file on your computer. You might be interested in some of that too..
HTH, -Don Spoon-
