Hmmm. That's exactly what I did, but it didn't work. I also did a system-wide search to make sure there wasn't another XftConfig file that it may be using instead of the one in /etc/X11. No other copies were found except for a symbolic link in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. All the fonts I'm trying to add are TrueType and as far as I know are all scalable. Is there a way to find out for sure which fonts are scalable and which are not? All of the fonts appear in the fonts.scale file which I think means they are scalable. (btw: restarting xfs was an act of desperation.) > Hi, > > "Matthew Lewis" <whammy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The man page wasn't much help. I added the relevent directories to the > > XftConfig file and restarted xfs just in case, but Gimp is still refusing to > > use anything other than the default fonts. Could someone post a copy of > > their XftConfig file as an example of how to add font libraries to Gimp? > > I will say it again: GIMP-1.3 does _not_ make use of X11 to render > fonts. It thus doesn't make any sense to restart xfs since the font > server is not involved at all. > > Adding the font directories to /etc/X11/XftConfig should do the > trick. Here's an example line: > > dir "/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType" > > Please note that you need scalable fonts, not necessarily TrueType, > but scalable. > > > Salut, Sven
