Still playing from time to time with true type fonts. Anyway, after reading some messages on this list, I noticed that I had a few ttf fonts laying around in /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, and that (according to /etc/X11/fs/config) that path was in the xserver's font- path, and (of course) the xfs was running. So I peeked in there and saw a fonts.dir but no fonts.alias file. Anyhow, that in itself may explain way doing things like "xterm -font fudd &' when there was a fudd.ttf file gave the error message "could not open font, trying font 'fixed' ". So, as root, I cp'd the fonts.dir file to fonts.alias, edited the fonts. alias file, removing the first line and then getting rid of the '.ttf' parts so I just had a file of font names and -misc-whatever-normal-extra gobbledygook-how-X-names-its-fonts :). I restarted xfs just to be sure that it would reread the file, and then tried to access these fonts by doing an 'xterm -font fudd &' for example. Upon doing so, no xterm. I saw the process running, so I tried another font - bingo - X crashed! Furthermore, the x font server would not start, at least not until I moved the offending fonts.alias file out of the way. I'm using 'XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-28mdk' and the rest of Xfree86 I compiled from sources. I haven't yet upgraded to 4.1.0. I remember having to reinstall the font server rpm because the compiled xfs would simply refuse to start - or die right after starting up. What am I missing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
