TTF fonts in XFree86

Gautam Gopalakrishnan ggop at madras.dyndns.org
Tue Dec 23 00:15:11 PST 2003


On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:07:18AM +0300, flux wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   I want to use TrueType font collection from MS Windows. I mounted my
> FAT32 partition on my FreeBSD box and copied all *.TTF files from
> C:\WINDOWS\Fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory. Then
> I added the following line into my /etc/X11R6/XF86Config:
> 
> FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> 
> and performed startx. The thing is, those TTF fonts are still
> unavailable and my WindowMaker doesn't see them as well. Would
> you please try to explain me what's wrong.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html

Gautam



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