Re: Installing fonts

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:57, Nick Wilson wrote:
> 
> * and then Leonard den Ottolander declared....
> > Hi Nick, 
> > 
> > > I have put the freefonts in the fonts dir on my system and I know I can
> > > get my applications to recognize them by using xset but I'd like it
> > > permanent.
> > 
> >  If you want to make these fonts available via the font server you have to add 
> > a reference to them in /etc/X11/fs/config.
> > 
> >  If you don't use the font server you can add a FontPath entry to 
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I saw in the XF86Config that from rh6+ they use a font server and I've
> not changed it. BUT (hehe), I added the lines and the fonts still do not
> appear in GIMP
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

added the lines to what?  did you restart the font server?

Bret