> On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > > Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? > > [snip] > > > Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt > > > then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+ > > > unix:/7100 or (assuming the X11 server runs on host > > > 127.0.0.1) xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7100 > > > > > [snip] > > > > I found the answer myself... (typical, isn't it? I try for hours and then > > ask > > someone. Then almost directly I find it myself...) The trick was to change > > the > > port number to 7101... > > yes...I could have sworn I changed most of the docs to say 7101 instead of > 7100...where did you get 7100 from? did I miss something? >
It said so loud and clear in the man page. > btw you said [in previous message..which I just now read 5 mins ago] > that you did xfstt --sync --dir /usr/share/font/truetype > but...if you use the debina verwsion of xfstt, which is the only > version which defaults to port 7100, is also the only version > to default to /usr/share/fonts/truetype[1] > Yes, the man page also said that it defaulted to that dir, but I wanted to be 100% sure to get at least that part right. (of course, a little testing shows that to be the case) (and yes I use the .deb xfstt) > -Steve > > [1] I talked to Herbert Duerr about this (author) he agrees that /usr/ttfonts > [the outside-debian default] is not a very good place for fonts but doesn't > want to change it because of so many people already using it - I imagine > he would say the same about moving it to port 7101... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO + ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
