On Mon, Aug 16, 2004, at 02:08 PDT, "Christopher Baus" wrote: > I have found another problem with font installation. I tried to install = > a TTF font but just dropping it into the fonts:/// folder in nautilus, > but that doesn't seem to work with all applications. I think it is a > XFT/XFS problems. After dragging the font, some apps, like OOo, can > see the font, but other like, emacs, can't. xfontsel can't see the > font either. I had to manually copy the font to xfs path and restart > not only xfs, but the entire font server and then the font worked with > xfontsel and emacs....
This is a problem with GTK/Gnome directly manipulating fonts outside of X. I think this has to do with the fact that the font system in X generally sucks. -- Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com/~sam/ San Francisco California _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
