Re: TTF font problems
Re: TTF font problems
- Subject: Re: TTF font problems
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:59:57 +0100 (CET)
+ Ben Byer <email@hidden>:
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
> > I like using the bitstream vera mono font for my terminals and
> > emacsen. This doesn't work under Leopard: The font files are in
> > /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, but the Vera fonts are not listed in
> > /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir.
>
> That's a bug; we're apparently running mkfontdir too early in the
> build process. Please file a bug at bugreport.apple.com.
Thanks. Will do.
> > xset fp recache
> >
> > but then the final command produces this output:
> >
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are:
> > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > Directory missing fonts.dir
> > Incorrect font server address or syntax
> I have no clue why xset gives that error, but you should see the
> fonts in the output of xlsfonts if you restart X11.app.
Indeed. I had assumed that when xset fp recache failed, that a
restart would fail equally. Bad assumption, I guess. I'll try to
experiment a bit further with xset fp rehash, and possibly file
another bug report.
- Harald
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