xfstt + urxvt + mc causes crash

2008-01-06 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running debian etch, and installed xfstt to use TT anti-aliased fonts in my emacs23. I'm trying out urxvt (rxvt-unicode) in place of xterm. It seems to work OK, but when I use it to start mc (MidnightCommander), the urxvt terminal hangs. This prevents my starting xterm, another

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin David Morse quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:32:11AM -0400 > I'm using the XFree that comes with the gnome-woody-backport. Can I see > your FontPaths from /usr/X11/XF86Config-4? Also, I have I have FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" And I installed x-t

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-11 Thread David Morse
- Subject: Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt From: David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:21:36 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I apt-got xfstt in order to use bi

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and > xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running > "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things: > > -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans >

bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-10 Thread David Morse
I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense fo

xfstt superfluous?

2003-04-05 Thread David Wright
In an attempt to fix ugly fonts in gtk1.2 apps, I just added /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the xfs configuration file /etc/X11/fs/config, and it worked! Does this mean that xfs can serve both PS and TT, making xfstt completely unnecessary? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

font servers: xfs vs. xfstt

2002-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, If I use lots of tt fonts, should I use xfstt instead? Do I even need xfs* at all? The reason I ask is that I just brought over tt fonts from my licensed copy of windows. Then I ran mkttfontdir (well, apt-get ran it for me, when I installed it), and added the directory /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Xfstt problems?

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Peczöli Zoltán ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing problems with the "xfstt" package, not sure if it's a > bug so i thought i would ask you folks here before reporting one. > > Installing xfstt I

Xfstt problems?

2001-09-18 Thread Peczöli Zoltán
Hi, I'm experiencing problems with the "xfstt" package, not sure if it's a bug so i thought i would ask you folks here before reporting one. Installing xfstt I follow the guide in the mini FAQ of TT-Debian. xlsfonts successfully lists all the *-ttf-* fonts I installed from t

Re: More problems with xfstt

2001-08-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for this pointer - as it turns out, you're right; a barcode font was the first returned when xfstt was on. I've fixed it like this; a hack, but it makes things work right: 1.) Make a new font directory: mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default 2.) Put the default font in it: cd /u

Re: More problems with xfstt

2001-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
to my .Xdefaults. The reason it happens only on one machine and not the other, and only with xfstt, is that you have a TT font on one machine but not the other, and that's the one that showing up. Or, that's as far as I can tell. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a var

More problems with xfstt

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
without a photographic memory. Can someone who understands font selection help with what might be happening? This happens only when using truetype fonts via xfstt. When I turn off xfstt, everything works as normal. Oddly enough, it happens only on my office machine; my home machine is happy with

Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Interestingly enough, that didn't do it; I got the same thing as before. However, this did: Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*backgro

Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a > somewhat more normal font for the menus? I use Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-a

xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I've just been experimenting with xfstt on my two machines (home and work), each running debian linux 2.2r3 (kernel 2.2.17pre19) to be able to use truetype fonts. At home, it worked fine until today. At the office, emacs' menus showed up in a bizarre, bar-code font that

xfstt kills emacs

2001-08-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
I finally got around to using some truetype fonts, following the directions in the truetype fonts under debian mini HOWTO. Everything worked fine (all the way through the fslsfonts business), and the truetype fonts made Netscape look much prettier. Unfortunately though, they killed emacs! The menu

xfstt in Debian

2001-04-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I installed xfstt, and I followed the instructions in the Debian mini HOWTO for setting up truetypes. Now, when I try to start X, I get an error about not being able to find the default font, fixed. Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb&qu

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts -- SOLVED

2001-01-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
mike polniak wrote: > You may have to re-create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir. Never mind. I copied the fonts again from a fresh Win98 install, resynced xfstt and now everything works fine. Dunno, why it wouldn't work before. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.infor

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
mike polniak wrote: > > # xfstt --sync > > xfstt: sync in directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/." > > Found 16 fonts. > > # > > > > `xlsfonts` will list them, but they won't render in X. X reverts to > > some def

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
mike polniak wrote: > Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. > Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files there and `xfstt --sync` will find them all: # xfstt

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-18 Thread mike polniak
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. > > Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. > > The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files > th

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
-Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years > now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, > copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and > did: > &

X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi all, I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and did: # /etc/init.d/xfstt stop # xfstt -

Re: xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 10:44 on Tue 16 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* > > > about what ths has over > > > the regular way X handles fonts, but I use > > > 'xfstt', which handles > > > truetype fon

Re: xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* > > about what ths has over > > the regular way X handles fonts, but I use > > 'xfstt', which handles > > truetype fonts. > > > > > is xfstt a font server that can be used in

Re: xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # is xfstt a font server that can be used in place # of xfs? I don't know if it can be used in place of xfs, but I know it can be used alongside xfs. I've got plenty of resources to burn on my machine, so I've never tried setting up x

xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread Xucaen
--- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* > about what ths has over > the regular way X handles fonts, but I use > 'xfstt', which handles > truetype fonts. >

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 19:42]: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using > > > the "inetc/127.0.0.1..." line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various > > > windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, open

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 15:45]: > > > Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, > > > section "Files", the following line should work for the default setup: > > > > > > FontPath "unix

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread John Foster
Richard Cobbe wrote: > > all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using > > the "inetc/127.0.0.1..." line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various > > windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost > > instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but n

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Hall Stevenson did write: > * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: > > > Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, > > section "Files", the following line should work for the default set

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: > Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, > section "Files", the following line should work for the default setup: > > FontPath "unix/:7101" > > See also /us

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Patrick Schnorbus did write: > Hi, > > I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in > /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. > But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then > with the GIMP,

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-25 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:38:56AM +0100, Patrick Schnorbus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in > /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. > But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with

Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-25 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hi, I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then with the GIMP, but in no program they are available. xfstt-daemon is running. any hints? Patrick

Highendian X-Terminal and lowendian xfstt

2000-10-08 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi debian! I had problems to see truetype fonts on my sparcLX, which I use as a X-Terminal. The fontserver is xfstt and runs on my Intel-PC. Someone gave me the hint that sun is bigendian and intel lowendian so that xfstt will never work. Will xfs-xtt do the job? Ciao! juh -- www.juergen

Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt Date: Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:30:23PM -0400 In reply to:mike Quoting mike([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this > in Mandrake before i started using Debian. Howeve

Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-05 Thread mike
running 'ttmkfdir' to create a file called fonts.scale, which is used by 'mkfontdir' to create the new font files in fonts.dir and then adding this to font path. On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:15:16 -0400, Joel Dinel said: > I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with n

fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-05 Thread Joel Dinel
I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with nice TrueType fonts. Now, is there a way to scale those fonts ? Right now I can only seem to get one default size. I remember having scaled TTF under RedHat. I'm sure there's a way to do it in Debian, I just don't know how... Thanks !

xfstt listening on *:7101

2000-09-23 Thread Jonas Moberg
According to lsof, my xfstt is listening on *:7101. xfs on the other hand does not. I noticed the "no-listen = tcp" in /etc/X11/xfs/config and was just wondering if there was something similar for xfstt. Couldn't seem to find any in the manpage.. Or perhaps this would be a reason t

Re: xfstt gives only one true type font size

2000-08-22 Thread mike
I have set up xfstt and am able to use true type fonts but when i choose a font , e.g. in Netscape i get only one font size to choose from (listed as size 0). When i set up true type fonts in Linux/Mandrake I also created a fonts.dir and fonts.scale in the truetype directory

xfstt & the Gimp

2000-08-21 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hi, I have xfstt running and a bunch of fonts copied into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ First question, do I have to do anything besides having the .ttf in the directory and running xfstt? Second question, how do I get the Gimp to see these fonts? Thanks in advance, Erik

Re: xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato

2000-08-19 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues > before i make the changes. xfs-xtt is better for very big, unicode fonts (hint: most far east ones). If you like configuring fonts, it allows you to do some font transforms as well. -- "One disk to rule them all, O

xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato

2000-08-18 Thread mike
My recent Debian potato installed xfs-xtt as the font server. I also see another very similar font server pkg named xfstt. Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues before i make the changes. On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Date: Thu,

RE: xfs+xfstt or xfs-xtt

2000-08-14 Thread Konstantinos E Maras
I ve done this change a few weeks ago. Both worked fine for me. I believe that (xfs + xfstt) use less memory than xfs-xtt, right now on my system RSS of xfs-xtt is ~3.5K but this seems to depend on configuration and usage (how many TTF requests from your apps) Main advantages for me: - I can use

xfs+xfstt or xfs-xtt

2000-08-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I am currently running xfs + xfstt on Potato with xserver-i128. Would you recommend to change to xfs-xtt? Does it uses less memory? What advantages are there? Are there problems changing the Font Server? TIA juh -- Heute ist der 3. Oktober! Basta! http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991109

Re: xfstt and font not available

2000-08-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
wrong. > Here's what I've done and what it happening: > > Copied /WINNT/Fonts/* /user/share/fonts/truetype to obtain the font > library. > > apt-get install xfstt > > added the quoted line to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > "xset fp+ unix/:7101" I do

xfstt and font not available

2000-08-04 Thread Matthew Davis
user/share/fonts/truetype to obtain the font library. apt-get install xfstt added the quoted line to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc "xset fp+ unix/:7101" restarted xfstt daemon with . /etc/init.d/xfstt restart And here's what happens: I am running Helix-gnome, so I go into gnomecc t

Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-06-01 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have been looking at the info xfstt, and i really didn't understand whats > that with xset fp+ unix/:7101 > Can you explain what this means, and what exactly I have to do? Okay, this is of the top of my head, because I don't have Linux at work. T

Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:31:54PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to > work. Yes. > Can you use the fonts from windows? Yes. > If so, how do you do it? Copy your MS Windows fonts to some location, you c

Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, there is a mini-howto for installing ttf for debian and you can find all the information you need to know there. the link is http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html#toc6 Good Luck.

xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to work. Can you use the fonts from windows? If so, how do you do it? Or otherwise, how do you get the fonts? Which is better, xfstt or xfs-xtt, since they seem to conflict with one another?

Re: xfstt question

2000-04-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, john smith wrote: > I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both > as root and user accounts) > $fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or > xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to

xfstt question

2000-04-09 Thread john smith
I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both as root and user accounts) $fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to verify them using xlsfonts | grep ttf so that the server

Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:31:49PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to > > other machines. > > Not really true. If you've ever been say, using the Gimp, and decided to > enter some text in a very large font, and

Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Eric G . Miller wrote: > Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to > other machines. Not really true. If you've ever been say, using the Gimp, and decided to enter some text in a very large font, and then been annoyed when X locked up for a minute to render that font, y

Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-09 Thread Howard Mann
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Not exactly Debian-specific > > > > > > Can anyone point me to some layman&#x

Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Not exactly Debian-specific > > > > Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning > > xfs vs xfstt vs using n

Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-09 Thread dan
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Not exactly Debian-specific > > Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning > xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the > DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make cle

xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-08 Thread Kent West
Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-31 Thread Shao Zhang
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > : Hi, > :Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? > > xfstt is a hack; it runs on a different port than xfs. > > xfs-xtt is intended to replace xfs and serve u

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, : Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? xfstt is a hack; it runs on a different port than xfs. xfs-xtt is intended to replace xfs and serve up TrueType fonts as well as the standard X fonts. xfstt is pretty easy to set

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-27 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Some what recently, Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about xfstt and xfs-xtt >:) Hi, >:) Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? >:) Thanks. >:) >:) Shao. >:) I have to use xfs-xtt inorfor to use

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-27 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Shao! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? > Thanks. xfs-xtt is better for dealing with CJK fonts, and can also do some transformations (such as bold, slant...) For western fonts, xfstt is probably eno

xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ _

Re: xfstt vs. xfs-xtt

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Is there any program which lists all used ports? (Haven't this been > asked before?) Try lsof -i and lsof -U to see which sockets are bound. -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me

Re: True type fonts and xfstt once again...

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:24:45AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try > this thing as well. > > There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and rea

True type fonts and xfstt once again...

1999-09-24 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try this thing as well. There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and reading the FAG doc... But if I'll give the command 'make xfstt && make inst

Re: true type fonts and xfstt - solved

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
when i typed 'fairly sure" before i hesitated a second. the problem was xfstt runs on port 7101 but in XFConfig i managed to put 7100. one looks but does not see... thanks again to all respondents, -a Aaron Stromas wrote: Seth R Arnold wrote: > Hmm. My next thought -- and I must

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
i followed the faq in /usr/doc/xfstt plus there is a font deuglification minihowto. so i'm fairly sure i didn't miss any necessary steps. > > > BTW, the *.fon files are not true-type. They are windows bitmap fonts. If > you have any of these in your /usr/share/fonts/truetyp

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-23 Thread Seth R Arnold
wouldn't prevent xfstt from working, but one never knows. hth :) On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:39:38AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: > seth, > > i've read and followed the faq before i asked for advice. the xfontsel > -pattern > found no matches. xcoral is not on my sys

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
nipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: > > 1.1 How do I test it? > mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run > > make xfstt && make install > xfstt --sync > xfstt & > xset fp+ unix/:7101 > xl

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt && make install

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Wed 09/22/99 02:45PM, Aaron Stromas wrote: Do you have the xfonts-base package installed? When you comment out the FontPath stuff for the TT fonts, does X start or not? -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vist

true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
when i posted the note below earlier i forgot to mention that i did indeed ran xfstt --sync (it tells me it found 118 fonts), and the xfstt is indeed started by /etc/init.d/xfstt. a number of people suggested that was the cause of the x server not starting. unfortunately, it's not. -a hi

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread M. K. Honeycutt
Aaron Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied > the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to > my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits > with "cou

true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with "could not open default font 'fixed'". i hav

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Aaron M. Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right, there is a "font deuglification mini-howto" i came across that > mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, > http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/fonts.html This page has a

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
right, there is a "font deuglification mini-howto" i came across that mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, -a John Foster wrote: "Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. > i didn't have to use 'type1in

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread John Foster
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. > i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine > but, i'm guessing, debian package added > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" > > to my /etc/X11/XF86Con

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
s, i must find a windoz box to copy the fonts from. i've seen some around ;-) -a On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and > the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The fonts included with the freefont package are not TrueType fonts, they're Postscript Type 1 fonts. These fonts can be used directly by the X server without the intercession of xfstt (which is only for TrueType fonts). "Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > hi, > > i'v

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and > the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about > not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Armin Wegner
ia, > Windows stores the truetype fonts in \Windows\fonts. Copy them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype in Linux and type "xfstt --sync". There should be a man page and you should read it. Have a look at /usr/doc/xfstt, too. A list of servers to download truetype fonts from is given there.

TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-01 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
  hi, i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package and discovered that the fonts are  in .pbf format. so

Re: xfs/xfstt

1999-08-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 12:09:06PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that > xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. > > But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage > (for a regular user) over

xfs/xfstt

1999-08-08 Thread Bek Oberin
I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage (for a regular user) over just putting directories in the FontPath bits of the X configs. Is this true? bekj --

Re: xfstt on potato

1999-07-30 Thread John Carline
Oz Dror wrote: > I have just installed the new version of xfstt on potato. > > when I run xfstt --sync > it does not generate a for dir file on /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ > thus ? I do not have true type fonts on. > > xfstt starts by the init process ( I do have unix/:710

xfstt on potato

1999-07-29 Thread Oz Dror
I have just installed the new version of xfstt on potato. when I run xfstt --sync it does not generate a for dir file on /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ thus ? I do not have true type fonts on. xfstt starts by the init process ( I do have unix/:7100 in my font path) Any help will be appreciated

Re: xfstt and ram

1999-07-25 Thread John Carline
richard wrote: > I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to > improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. > gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. > Is this normal? > Thanks a lot! All you've done is totally confuse me. After readi

Re: xfstt and ram

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:29:24PM -0700, richard wrote: > I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to > improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. > gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. > Is this normal? Apparently - mine is using gett

xfstt and ram

1999-07-24 Thread richard
I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. Is this normal?

RE: xfstt

1999-06-11 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Do you have an exaple for setting up xfs and replacing all the X fontpath config lines? Seems I can't get it working properly. BB -Original Message- From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

RE: xfstt

1999-06-11 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Thanks to this thread, I "FINALLY" got xfstt to work. I found out that once you have xset +fs set for your port, you can't restart xfstt without restarting the whole X system. Anyhow, took me awhile to get it working. I have one question though. I could have sworn the o

Re: xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 06:07:41PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > > > Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fon

Re: xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. Here's an example: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R

Re: xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just reinstalled my system (I'm removing Windows from my hard drive) and I've only a couple of problems left. I've installed the xfstt package, copied all the fonts from C:\Windows\fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and run xfstt --sync successfully (it reports the new f

Re: about xfstt an freefont

1999-05-19 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
gt; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Thankds, but I solved it today, and I don't know how. after installing xfstt the user can access to others font. the right permission are good. I run some commande as root, one of this solved it after a reboot :

Re: about xfstt an freefont

1999-05-19 Thread JV2
> From:Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Today I made my truetype fonts accessible by X by changing the > /etc/init.d/xfstt and changing this line : > portno=7101 > to this : > portno=127.0.0.1:7101 > or by : > portno=inet/127.0.0.1:7

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