On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Arie Folger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I thought we discussed a similar case, but couldn't find it in the archives:
> I upgraded to RH8.0, and am generally happy (although I can't get the package
> manager to work at all. Help needed here!) but have the following problem:
>
> /usr/X11R/lib/X11/fonts/local is symlinked to /usr/local/share/fonts, in which
> there are two directories: ms-webfonts and TrueType. Both directories have
> entries in xfs's config file, and indeed, when firing up xfontsel I can see
> those fonts. Up until before th upgrade I used those fonts throughout kde.
> However, now, when I fire up the fonts dialog of kde (any font dialog in
> kde), I can't see the selfsame fonts. Result is that I can't display Hebrew
> properly, and can't use my beloved TrueType fonts (eventhose from the
> despised behemoth are still beloved fonts).
>
> How do I get my fonts back into kde?
>
> PS: it's kde 3.0.3 red hat

One guess:

you use Xft. Therefore the X server's fonts config is not that much
relevant.

Add the directory to:

/etc/X11/XftConfig

(or to ~/.XftConfig)

you need to add the following line:

dir "/usr/local/share/fonts/ms-webfonts"

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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