Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-10 Thread manifestoe
Thanks, I'll look in to it. xset q will tell you your fontpath for X core. /etc/X11/fontpath.d is the catalog directory. It has symlinks for a subset of /usr/share/fonts. adding fontpath Files to the X11 xorg.conf should be equivalent. the xset +fp commands are supposed to do the same thing fo

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread manifestoe
yes, the rpm i've pointed to will do all of that for you. The spec file is on the sourceforge site (same link), but the spec file no longer contains the core X and Xft commands. Those are in a shell script that comes in the rpm. You'll find the shell script in the tarball at https://sourceforge.

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-08 Thread manifestoe
You probably didn't run the X core indexers. mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/msttcore mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/msttcore assuming you've already added this cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/09-msttcore-fontpath.conf <<'EOT' Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/msttcore" EndSection EOT the xset a

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-08 Thread manifestoe
Sergio, have a look here ... http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_and_use_X-Windows_fonts xfontsel is part of X core fonts. fc-list will list the fonts known to Xft fonts. xlsfonts will list the fonts known to X core. Yes, I believe the rpm I pointed to should setup the fonts for xfont

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-08 Thread manifestoe
Try this instead ... rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.2-1.noarch.rpm This rpm installs the fonts from sourceforge at install time, it does not contain the fonts. In addition, it pulls in updated fonts from the EUupdate font set, and in