[ale] X font problems

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Sun Jan 18 13:23:45 EST 2004


On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:26 am, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a Debian install to which I'm trying to add some truetype fonts.  I
> appear to have it so that my TT font server recognizes them (according to
> fslsfronts).  And that fontserver is in the font path (according to xset),
> but gimp and xlsfonts do not show them.
>
> Ideas? Thanks
>
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Do you have a fonts.conf file anywhere in your /etc directory?
Does it have a reference to the directory with the newly added fonts?
Did you run 'fc-cache -fv' ?

Just a couple things that I have to do sometimes to get new fonts to show.


Calvin...



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