Re: Installing fonts

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:03, Nick Wilson wrote:
> 
> * and then Bret Hughes declared....
> > > >  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?
> 
> 
> Sorry, I added them to the file mentioned above, /etc/X11/fs/config
> 
> I didn't restart the server (i don't know how?) but I rebooted the
> system. Is that not enough, is there somthing else I should do?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> -- 

service xfs restart should have done it I believe but a restart should
have done it too.

try running chkfontpath and see if it picked up the new path

here it is on my 7.3 laptop:
[bhughes bretsony dcimages]$ chkfontpath
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID
9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local
10: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1
11: /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType
12: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
13: /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts
14: /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType
15: /usr/share/fonts/dia

HTH

Bret