Hey all, I recently switched to Slackware 9. Until then, I used Debian, so never really had to bother with fonts. For one reason or another, they always looked beautiful everywhere :-) Now, however, I can't seem to get it right. I downloaded some TrueType- and other fonts, placed them in some directories under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, ran mkfontscale & mkfontdir in each of them and added those directories to XF86Config. When I restarted X, "xlsfonts" correctly listed all my fonts, so I thought things were settled. But they aren't, as you might have guessed by now :-) GTK apps (Abiword, Mozilla & the like) do have anti-aliasing (although I guess that is being taken care of by XFree 4.3.0), but their font listing has a mere 10 different fonts, all of which are just defaults (I mean: the ones I downloaded aren't listed). Qt-apps *do* have the fonts listed, but they aren't displayed: whatever name I point to, it's just some ugly default sans-serif thingy. Someone on some newsgroup advised me to create ~/.fonts/ as a symlink to the main font-directory, but that didn't help. I browsed this list's archives, read somewhere I should execute "fc-cache -f -v" as root *and* as myself, the first goes okay, the latter causes some repeated output looking like this: fc-cache: "/home/tom/.fonts/varia": caching, 74 fonts, 0 dirs Can't save cache in "/home/tom/.fonts/varia" I guess the cache can't be saved because the directory is just a symlink to a dir I have no writing permissions on. Moreover, some other directories, which sure do contain fonts, read "caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs". Then again: if "fc-list" correctly lists all fonts and if the same goes for "xlsfonts" - what else could I do? I appreciate any pointers, hints or - even - solutions... :-) Greets, Tom -- np: Les Joyaux de la Princesse - Terrorisme Islamique
