Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Marc Wilson wrote: [...] It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even START, Eterm would start, but not

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:24:01PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: [...] It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm would display hash instead of line-drawing

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
John S. J. Anderson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then,

Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even with the old 4 MB

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread wulfie
http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html This is not XF4-specific but does give a good guide to getting ttfs running in X in general, plus all the required tools can be downloaded in a single tarball. It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears not to

RE: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: John S. J. Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 10:31 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:03:55AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: It really is just that simple. I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it. Aterm would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even START,

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
wulfie wrote: It would make sense if ttmkfdir was included with freetype, but it appears not to be. fttools has mkttfdir, which works -- see shy jo

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then, it started working. I'm not sure

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
John S. J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wulfie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I

XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wulfie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I don't

X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got. Old Trident Card? Hey, which one? We may be in the same boat.