TrueType fonts on Xvnc

David Smith smithd "at" blkbox.com
Sun, 02 Apr 2000 03:48:07 +0000


>I have an issue on using truetype font support on Xvnc 3.3.3.
>
>Display :0 is working great. I'm using RedHat 6, xfs, ttmkfdir. 
>Locally the truetype support is working great, but any other xvnc 
>display just don't recognize the truetype directory. I've tried 
>using "xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/". I've tried also 
>the full path version "xset fp=/usr/......" and it returns the same 
>error message, telling me that the truetype directory is not valid, 
>or doesn't have fonts.dir or something else that I can't remeber 
>right now.

try setting your font path to "tcp/localhost:7100"  that is the local 
font server that most UNIX boxes with X run.  It should do the 
translation for you.

Luck.
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David A. Smith
<smithd "at" blkbox.com>
The box said: "Needs Windows 98 or better," so I bought a Macintosh.
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