> >> do> Has anybody written a Howto or tutorial on setting up the truetype
> > In addition to wine and my windoze games I need truetype in Abiword and The Gimp
>
> 1. Install xfs and xfstt using apt-get.
Done
>
> 2. Configure xfs:
> a. Modify /etc/X11/fs/config if nessary and restart the xfs server
> ('/etc/init.d/xfs restart').
Added the truetype path to the end of the catalogue
did xfs restart
>
> b. Verify that xfs is working ('falsfonts -server unix/:7100').
did this
falsfonts: command not found ... is this a problem????
>
> 3. Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to include the non-ttf fonts on port 7100:
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> # FontPath "unix/:7110" # local font server
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> 4. Verify that xfs fonts are visible:
> Restart X and run the command 'xlsfonts'.
>
> 5. Copy your ttf font files to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and set
> permissions to 0444 (user read, group read, other read).
>
> 6. Configure xfstt:
> a. Restart the xfstt ttf font server ('/etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload').
$ /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload
Reloading X True Type Font Server configuration...Stopping X TrueType Font
Server: xfstt not running.
xfstt: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist! ..... (It does and is 0444)
xfstt: sync failed
Starting X TrueType Font Server: xfstt.
>
> b. Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to include the ttf fonts on port 7101:
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7101" # ttf fonts preferred
> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> # FontPath "unix/:7110" # local font server
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> EndSection
Did this
>
> 6. Verify that the xfstt fonts are visible:
> Restart X and run the command 'xlsfonts | grep ttf'.
did this .... got no fonts
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