Way back on Feb 01, 2005, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >Many fontconfig default setups *only* display scalable fonts, and omit > >bitmap fonts (See /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). Personally, I add the > >following to /etc/fonts/local.conf to (re)enable bitmap fonts: > > > ><dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir> > ><dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir> > ><dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc</dir> > > Actually, that isn't necessary. The file: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" > should contain: > > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> > <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> > <dir>~/.fonts</dir> > > Unless you have fonts in odd places, this should find all of your fonts. That's what I thought, but apparently things don't work as James suggests with KDE 3.4 and XFree86 4.5.0. I had been rummaging around trying to reconnect with Helvetica after installing X-4.5.0 and then the latest KDE, built via konstruct, when I found this thread in my kde list archive. The /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file installed by X does have the three lines referencing the top-level fontpaths (all my fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts), but the bitmap fonts only appeared in KDE after I added those specific font directories to local.conf. And yes, I had run fc-cache after the X installation. The bitmap fonts simply never appeared in any of the KDE font selection lists, either as user or "Administrator". Interestingly, as user, any effort to add a font resulted in an error popup saying: "The process for the fonts protocol died unexpectedly". As root (administrator), I didn't get that error, but I wasn't offered any bitmap fonts in the selection list. If I browsed to one of the pcf files manually, the installer advised me that a file with that name already existed, and did I want to overwrite it? All the fonts were available all along in xfontsel. I had a very difficult time getting anything remotely readable in a KDE Konsole, but I could get the standard "fixed" family fonts in an Xterm by specifying the XLFDs in ~/.Xdefaults. So, I don't know what's up with KDE, whether all this indicates some bug in the system somewhere, but I'm grateful that adding the <dir> lines to local.conf provides a workaround. FWIW, Jim _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
