On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:41:26AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > scenario: > > sid, kde-3.1.2, xserver-svga (v3.3.6), X-4.2.1, xfstt > > Huh? Are you combining parts of X from 3.3 (xserver) and 4.2 (the > rest)? I'd be surprised if that worked out.
Why is that? Would you be surprised if a v3 remote X-terminal could connect to machine with XFree-4? > XFree86 v 4 does not require any font servers, and I think it works > with a different set of font servers than 3.3. It handles TT builtin > (provided you load the right module, freetype, in XF86Config-4). I > think there's another module that also can handle TT). that's how I understand it also (at least for local sessions) > Finally, KDE 3.1.2 (and probably earlier, but maybe not 2) has a > control panel option for registering fonts, including specifically one > for Type1 and one for TrueType. You need to go into administrative > mode to make this effective for all users (there is a button on the > panel to do so--you don't need to login as root). This seems to > require that both directories be under the main font directory, which > may require a symlink, esp for TrueType. didn't work either ways (usr|admin share/fonts|X11R6...fonts... > > - KDE knows about the fonts but they are not rendered > How do you know it knows? ...on a per-user basis: fonts were copied into ~/.kde, had a green checkmark, appeared in the font selector dialogs, but were always rendered as helvetica ...in admin mode: .afm's were created (iirc) under X11R6 when the fonts were in /usr/share/fonts (no surprise, eh)... green blah blah helvetica <...> > Depending on where you got your TrueType fonts, you may have a huge > number of them. You might want to pare down the list (the one in > fonts.dir, fonts.scale, and related files) so it only has your > favorites. That might speed things up. just the ms core tt fonts <...> > > Hmmm, could having ttf available through both fontconfig (via > > x-ttfcidfont-config) and xfs-ttf be a problem... s/b xfs-xtt :-/ > Well, I've been more thinking that not having fonts available through > fontconfig is the problem. Someone recommended to me to make sure the > TT fonts were in fontconfig. sounds reasonable except the v3 xservers don't know about fontconfig (???) I think there are too many cooks <shrug>, and am not sure why KDE is doing low level mucking about with fonts (especially at the system level). Oh well, it's probably moot for me now. I saved a P133 wth a 1G drive (installed stable) from the landfill recently, and just today fixed it up with 96M and the 30G drive (unstable) with my $HOME, it has an S3 Trio64V+ which is supported in Xfree-4.3... - Bruce
