On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:42:12 -0400 Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:05, Klaus Dahlke wrote: > > Hi all, > > please excuse this dumb question, but I am somehow confuded about the font handling: > > > > When I run gnome-2.4, I use GDK_USE_XFT=0 in my .xinitrc before I start gnome. I can then select basically all the fonts declared in XF86Config. When setting GDK_USE_XFT=1, only the truetype fonts are shown. > > > > After installing gnome-2.6 I can only select only the truetype fonts (GDK_USE_XFT=0), whereas gfontsel, xfontsel etc show all fonts declared in XF86Config. I haven't changed any configuration. I am little confused. > > Add all those fonts declared in XFree86 config to your fontconfig > configuration file. (/etc/fonts/local.conf or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf) > GNOME uses fontconfig exclusively, so if it doesn't know about the font, > GNOME won't know about them. Previously fontconfig only supported > TrueType fonts so the GDK_USE_XFT hack was necessary (tho unfortunate, > since it killed good font rendering). Now fontconfig supports all fonts > that XFree86 does, so the hack is no longer needed. You just need to > tell fontconfig about the fonts. > > > > > Any help is appritiated. > > > > Thanks, > > Klaus > -- > Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list Sean, thanks for the help. It works now, basically. Some fonts look weird like Helvetica. The font look like each character is followed by a blank, so huge spacing between two characters. I have a similar setup to this (SUSE+some own compilation) on a gentoo-box, where this doesn't happen .... Any thoughts? Thanks, Klaus _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
