This one time, at band camp, Florent Rougon said: (Friday 13 September 2002 10:55 am)
> I would suggest /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType instead. It avoids having to > create the symlinks mentioned above and is what is expected by the > msttcorefonts package (see : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=3Dno\&bug=3D135862 > for more details). One may infer other fonts packages also expect this > FontPath. > > Of course, this works because msttcorefonts creates links for every font > it installs from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/$font to > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/$font. I don't know if this is the case with > all your /usr/share/fonts/truetype fonts. That's what happened with the latest msttcorefonts package. Those of us with this problem don't have the symlinks from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/$font -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/$font Those symlinks would accomplish the same thing as the three mentioned before regarding encodings.dir, fonts.dir, and fonts.scale. But if msttcorefonts, defoma, and other packages expect the links for each font file instead, and want to use the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType path, that is probably a better workaround. Actually, I just studied the "update-ms-fonts" script in the msttcorefonts packages, both 1.0.1 and 1.1.0. The newer package script comments out the code that creates the symlinks with the note "This should be handled by defoma now" and calls "/usr/lib/defoma-font reregister-all /etc/defoma/hints/msttcorefonts.hints". Obviously something has gotten lost in the translation... I can't find anything in the defoma docs about it setting up links. Here's an updated workaround: * Remove these links if you have them: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/encodings.dir -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/encodings.dir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.dir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.scale ->=20 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.scale * uncomment the lines (175-179) that create the links in /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts * comment the lines (182-186) that remove the links in /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts * run /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts This will create the links * return 'FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" ' to XF86Config-4=20 * return 'dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" ' to XftConfig * restart X This workaround is better than the previous one, because it leaves your system in a state closer to the way it should be. When the msttcorefonts package is updated in the future it should just start working again transparently. I've filed a bug against msttcorefonts, but don't have the number yet. Warren
