aliasing charter,helvetica,fixed etc to ttf-freefont fonts

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(re-sending to the list, my first mail was sent to a moderation queue)

Le ven 17/10/2003 =E0 17:23, Maarten De Boer a =E9crit :
> hello,
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> i have been trying to do the following whole day, and it's driving me
> crazy :-(
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> i am installing debian sarge with sid's kde 3.1.4, and i want to use
> antialiased fonts. i choose to use the ttf-freefont package
>  "A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS
>  character set. These fonts are similar to the (in)famous Helvetica,
>  Times and Courier fonts."
> so I don't have helvetica,charter, and several other fonts. now, kde
> out of the box uses helvetica (kdm for example), so i would like to have
> this aliased to the freefont equivalent, nimbus sans. some for "fixed" (a=
s
> used by konsole), i'd like to have that alias to nimbus mono, or bitstrea=
m
> vera sans mono. HOW do it do this?? I've been playing with local.conf,
> running fc-cache -f, but to no avail... PLEASE HELP!

Normally fontconfig is configured to do this aliasing automatically, and
it works with GTK-based applications. But there is, at least in Debian,
a problem with Qt and these aliases. You can have a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/209378 where this issue is discussed among other
things.

Regards,
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