[CLUE-Tech] X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts

[Angelo Bertolli]

I don't know if this matters, but what happens when you run 
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>After a few years of having no trouble with TrueType fonts, I discover
>today that X is no longer serving them up.
>
>I haven't changed anything. No upgrades, no changes to my XF86Config file.
>
>The only clue I have here is the message from X:
>"Could not init font path element /public/fonts, removing from list!"
>
>I've recreated both the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files in my directory of
>TT fonts. No luck, and in the process lost the encodings.dir file (needed,
>I understand, by OO).
>
>My question then is, I guess, how do get X to tell my WHY it can't init
>that font path element?
>
>Is there a utility in X somewhere to examine a font directory and report
>on its status? I get no errors when I do 'xset +fp /public/fonts'. And
>doing so doesn't cause the fonts to show up, for example, in The GIMP.
>
>This is a RH8 box.
>
>jed
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