This one time, at band camp, Andreas Schuldei said: (Sunday 22 September 2002 12:54 am) > I have LOTS of truetype fonts from my windows box installed. how > am i supposed to deal with those? now i just called ttmkfdir in > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, where i put all > my fonts now. > > Are all ttfonts supposed to be anti-aliased? i regularly break my > desktop fonts layout when i check the anti-aliased box, restart > X, notice that there is only one font available making > everything look funny, uncheck the checkbox, restart X, and find > all font entries rewritten to use that singel font, still. > This even happend with ttfonts available, i believe. Do i need to > do something special to make this work?
If I understand defoma correctly: * your TT fonts should be in /usr/share/fonts/truetype or some other directory -- not /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfonts-conf.d/dirs/TrueType * you "register" each font with defoma by using defoma-font, see man defoma-font for info. If you have a bunch of fonts, you can use a "hint file" * defoma will add symlinks to /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfonts-conf.d/dir/TrueType for you and update the various info files like ttmkfdir does. * the only TT font dir in your various X font paths should be /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfonts-conf.d/dirs/TrueType * anti-aliasing fonts under XFree86 uses the config file XftConfig, not just the usual Xf86Config-4. You need to have 'dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfonts-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" ' in your XftConfig file * after moving your TT fonts out of /var/lib/defoma... you might need to reinstall defoma to have it build the symlinks in that directory that it thinks it build already HTH, Warren
