X.Org & Fonts

iswm · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:20 am Post subject:

Wish it worked for me.. Even lost a 20 day uptime rebooting trying to fix this.

WhO_KnOwS · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Doesn't work for me either. I still get the ugly font on some pages in firefox. Hope this soon gets fixed.
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CyriC · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem and nothing helps too
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CyriC · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:10 am Post subject:

It's strange:
When I run apps with kdesu, fonts look alright, the same is when I log to KDE as a root.
Maybe it's problem with permission, or with some user settings.
I deleted .kde directory, and tried to configure it from begining but this wasn't help.
Any sugestions ??

PS Sorry for bad english
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mute_dammit · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 6

I had a similar problem; most applications looked fine, but Firebird's fonts were entirely ugly. Turns out that - somehow - my truetype fonts didn't survive the transition to xorg. The */truetype directory was still there, but had nothing inside. After some poking about (and after trying all of the suggestions in this thread) I emerged corefonts and removed the link to */TTF from my XF86Config. Now everything looks great again.

Phlogiston · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

Phlogiston · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

LostSon · Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 514 Location: Wisconsin

So if im reading this right i should change this

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

to

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"

:?:

Phlogiston · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:59 am Post subject:

Why the knee-jerk rebooting everyone , we're not in Billville here.

Just restarting X will be enough.

HTH.
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Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject:

e2k · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 44

Um, don't know if this belongs here, but since I don't know what to do and it's related to xorg and fonts, I'll go for it:

I followed this tutorial (Mini-HOWTO X.org & font) and everything works pretty good, except for the fact that I can't get scands (å, ä and ö) working in eterm nor aterm. This is pretty frustrating, I speak finnish, and since I run irssi under it I just get symbols instead of the scands (other users see them as scands though). I don't know why this happened, maybe I should edit some of the font-paths to the bottom of the list in some of the configs? (I fixed a cursor-exchange with this method)

makzu · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 42

You say you're having problems with getting the fonts in Mozilla-based browsers? I dont' mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I've written a quick howto post in these very forums to do just that. Since "Gecko-based browsers" (including Firefox, Epiphany, Galeon, and Thunderbird) use their own font rendering system, system-wide font configuration options won't effect them at all, but these options smooth them out nicely.
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nicenpretty · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

Hi there,

I have been using xnview for quite a while now but since i upgraded Xorg to 6.8 it keeps on crashing when i try to browse or view images:

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 445
Current serial number in output stream: 597

I followed all the steps in the mini-how-to but it did not seem to work out for me.
I looked up the fonts beiing used by xnview in /etc/X11/app-defaults and they all seem to be properly installed. (using xfontsel)

But if i add my University's fontserver in xorg.conf (like: it works!!
So, is xnview then using a secretly using a font?
Why and where did that font go when upgrading xorg?

Any suggestions? I love this Programm

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

A problem for me that, for some reason, emerge xorg-x11 didn't install the corefonts package and I was using the ugly, bitmapped alternatives. So, make sure you have corefonts installed.

r0ot · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

For as long as I've been using Gentoo, emerging X has never installed the corefonts simply because the corefonts are not considered a dependency.