Stephen Carville wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get True Type fonts working with Mandrake 6.0?
>
> After I figured out they were not on by default I tried to enable then
> using xfs. I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and ran
> 'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale'. Then I used mkfontdir to create the
> fonts.dir file.
That's an unusual way of doing it.
try:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts
ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
rm fonts.scale
then reenable ttfonts and restart xfs.
BTW: xfs seems quite buggy to me. As has been noted on this list, if
one of the fonts has a space in the filename the resulting fonts.dir
will confuse xfs, causing it to silently fail and prevent you from using
X11.
a: It should handle this better
b: It shouldn't silently fail. Some stracing reveals that it's
attempting to report an error message _somewhere_, but not stderr, not
syslog; it seems to get lost. I didn't get around to pulling out the
source to diagnose this further.
