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Re: TrueType problem + question
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:01:15 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: TrueType problem + question
- References: <303ccd7d22c5.42a58f47@netvision.net.il>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote:
> (Newbie -- please pardon trivial mistakes. I did read the Cygwin/X user guide and the FAQ of course before posting)
>
> Hello all
>
> Running Cygwin/X release 6.8.2.0-2 to connect to an XDMCP.
>
> Cygwin/X compains "could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/". The directory exists, has good permissions, I ran mkfontscale there (which created fonts.scale), but still. Can anyone offer other things to check?
run font-update. mkfontscale is not enough. you also need mkfontdir after it.
font-update will do this in the right order and also update the freetype font
cache.
> After that works...: how exactly do I use TrueType fonts? Do they have font names such as the traditional "-adobe-courier-..."? I saw syntaxes like "shadow=1:xft:size=10" etc, but cannot find references to those.
some programs use the server side fonts like this.
-microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
You can set the font size to any desired value (like 24)
-microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs)
use client side fonts which are named with the true font name.
In xterm:
xterm -fn -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
xterm -fa "Tahoma 24" -fs 24
^^^ This disables wide paddings.
@Thomas: Do you know what is causing this?
bye
ago
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