Can't get Mac fonts in X11
Can't get Mac fonts in X11
- Subject: Can't get Mac fonts in X11
- From: tlm <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:48:01 -0400
The executive summary:
My coworker and I have the same Mac system (see below), but in his X11
apps he can get Monaco and Andale Mono (for example), and I can't. We
can't figure out why. (I want Monaco!)
Please try this: bring up xterm, run xfontsel, and look for "Andale
Mono" under the "fmly" tab (second from the left). For those of you
(if any!) who see it there, do you know what you did to enable X11 to
find and use "Andale Mono"? Do you also see "Monaco"?
The details:
I am unable to get Mac fonts (e.g. Monaco or Andale Mono) in my X11
applications. However, a coworker of mine, who has the exact same
hardware and software as I have (a MacBook with OSX 10.4.7 and X11 1.1
- XFree86 4.4.0) is able to get Mac fonts in X11. E.g., if we both
bring up xfontsel and select the "fmly" tab, his shows "Monaco" and
"Andale Mono", whereas mine doesn't. My system definitely has these
fonts installed (I can set them easily in Terminal, for example).
My coworker and I have compared notes and we cannot spot any
significant difference in the way we installed our base systems and
our X11 stuff.
Everything that I've found online relating to X11 fonts in OSX
involves messing around with one configuration file or another. I
have resisted trying any of this because I have had a few
X11-font-related nightmares in the past, all involving similar
scrambles, and most importantly, I know that my coworker did *not*
edit any font configuration file or specifically set any environment
variable or otherwise did anything special to get these fonts to be
available to X11 applications. I am hoping to find a simple solution
before I complicate my system (and my life) unnecessarily.
Does anyone have any clue to this puzzle?
(I tried to get help with this from Apple tech support since I'm still
under the 90-day free-support period, but I was disappointed to learn
that they won't touch with a ten-foot pole anything having to do with
X11.)
Many thanks in advance!
tlm
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