TrueType Fonts with XFS

[David Harel]

Thanks for your elaborate reply,

I started using your advice and it seems to work much better once I work 
one step at a time. I just need a little more help regarding the 
FontConfig. As I looked into the files in /etc/fonts, they seem to be 
XML files. Also I understand that there is some kind of tool to 
manipulate the content of those files but all I found was the command 
fontconfig-config to which I did not find documentation.
Can you recommend me how to manage those *.conf files?

James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> David Harel wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> I hope you don't mind my attempt to send you a message directly, I 
>> was wondering why you say that xfs is obsolete
>
>
> XFree86 now has an internal font server for the old X font system 
> which handles TrueType fonts directly.  KDE and most new applications 
> use FontConfig.  So, unless you are using it to serve fonts over a 
> network to applications that don't use FontConfig, you don't need it.
>
>> and what do you suggest to use instead of it.
>
>
> You should list your font paths in XF86Config, and you should make sure
> that FontConfig finds all of your font directories based on the two
> configuration files (*.conf) in: /etc/fonts/"
>
>> I ask this because I tried to set the font path in XFree86 config file
>> to use the fonts directories directly but then, everything worked very
>> slowwww.
>
>
> This is very odd.  Do you have something like this in XF86Config:
>
> Section "Files"
>     RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local:unscaled"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>     FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts:unscaled"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
>     FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW/TT"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>     FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW/Type1"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>     FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>     FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> To check FontConfig, run in a Konsole [as root]:
>
>     fc-cache -v
>
> and see if it lists all of your font directories.
>
> Or, you might want to redo the caches with:
>
>     fc-cache -vf
>
> It will take a while if you have a lot of fonts.
>
> Remember, after changing XF86Config that you need to restart X for the 
> changes to take effect.
>
> -- 
> JRT
>

-- 
Thanks.

David Harel,

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