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<td>Re: Fonts Info</td>
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<td>Fri, 23 May 2003 13:10:07 -0600</td>
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<td>Matt Gushee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mgushee@havenrock.com"><mgushee@havenrock.com></a></td>
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<td>Matt Gushee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mgushee@havenrock.com"><mgushee@havenrock.com></a></td>
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<td>Joe Linux <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:joelinux@earthlink.net"><joelinux@earthlink.net></a></td>
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<pre>Hi, Joe--
I think many people have issues with fonts and might
find this of use.
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:50:25PM -0600, Joe Linux wrote:
> I found this in file: /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> Section "Files"
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server
> independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> FontPath "unix/:-1"
Wow, that's weird. That "unix/:xxx" thing is indicating a Unix domain
socket, with 'xxx' being the port number. But I have no idea what a
value of -1 would mean. Maybe it's disabled?
> Inside of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1">file:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1</a> is the following text:
> "encodings" 0 ".dir"
> "Speedo" 0 ".dir"
> "TTF" 0 ".dir"
> "Type1" 0 ".dir"
> "mdk" 0 ".dir"
> "misc" 0 ".dir"
Don't know what that means either.
> The fonts seem to be in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts">file:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</a>
Which fonts? The ones that the GIMP can't find? Or do you just mean that
that's your main font directory.
> There are these font directories pluse the one file with the contents
> listed above:
> [root@localhost fonts]# ls
> 100dpi/ 75dpi/ encodings/ fonts.cache-1 mdk/ misc/ Speedo/ TTF/
> Type1/
>
> Any suggestion for the font path?
Whatever you want it to be. The easiest thing would be to just dump them
into one of the above directories and run 'mkfontdir'--then you wouldn't
have to edit any config files. But on the other hand, you probably would
have to reinstall them whenever you upgrade.
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