[kde-doc-english] X11 fonts

[Rudy J. Richardson]

Yuri,

Thank you for your reply and your request for more information. I am 
running a crystallography application that uses X11 to draw its GUI. It 
has no "preferences" dialogue and apparently picks up its font from what 
is available to X11. I have many fonts installed in my system that are 
available to other applications such as LibreOffice. However, for the 
crystallography application, I cannot change the font, which currently 
looks bad. If I run "xlsfonts" to see which fonts are available to the X 
server, I get only old generic fonts and I do not see my TrueType or Type1 
fonts. I have tried adding font paths to my Xorg.conf file, but this does 
not work.

BTW, I know about the font management utility in KDE and I also use the 
Gnome Font Manager from KDE. I also know about Font Matrix, but I do not 
need to design or tweak fonts for my work. The most I would need is the 
ability to select fonts for X11 and perhaps be able to turn on options 
such as hinting and antialiasing, as I can for most of the applications 
that I run under linux/KDE.

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Rudy

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:

> ???????? Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:33:58 +0200, <rjrich at umich.edu>:
>
>> Please include information on how to make fonts available to X11.
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you clarify what do you mean by "how to make fonts available to X11".
>
> By the way, KDE has built-in font management utility. It can be run from 
> System Settings (Font management) or from KRunner (Alt+F2, "kcmshell4 
> fontinst", Enter).
>
> The help is available from the Font management window or from docs.kde.org:
>
> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html
>
> If you are a professional designer, I recommend you to use Fontmatrix:
>
> http://fontmatrix.be/
>
> Fontmatrix is written on Qt, so it has a native look and fell in KDE 
> environment.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri