X.Org & Fonts

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iswm · Post by **iswm** » Wed May 05, 2004 2:20 am

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

WhO_KnOwS · Post by **WhO_KnOwS** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:03 pm

Doesn't work for me either. I still get the ugly font on some pages in firefox. Hope this soon gets fixed.

CyriC · Post by **CyriC** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:51 pm

I have the same problem and nothing helps too

CyriC · Post by **CyriC** » Mon May 10, 2004 12:10 am

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

mute_dammit · Post by **mute_dammit** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:00 pm

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 · Post by **Phlogiston** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:44 pm

CyriC wrote:I have the same problem and nothing helps too

have you soved the problem?

I have also font problems... very ugly... could anybody help me...

Phlogiston · Post by **Phlogiston** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:55 pm

bengi wrote:Wow thanks guys, deleting /usr/share/fonts/TTF and rebooting sorted out font issues for me.

yehaaaaaaaaaaa after a reboot and playing arround with some configs: it works great here

great thanks to all of you I'm soooo happy now

LostSon · Post by **LostSon** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:33 pm

So if im reading this right i should change this

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

to

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

Phlogiston · Post by **Phlogiston** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:28 pm

LostSon wrote:So if im reading this right i should change this

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

to

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

Hmm not really... what i did was:

mv -v /usr/share/fonts/TTF /tmp/TTF

and here are my working config files:

/etc/fonts/local.conf:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations --><fontconfig>
<!--
  Enable sub-pixel rendering
	<match target="font">
		<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
	</match>
	
<!-
         <match target="font"> 
                 <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> 
         </match> 
 --> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/terminus/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/unifont/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/Type1/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/freefont/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/local/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/misc/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/CID/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/util/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/sharefont/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/lfp-fix/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/</dir> 
         <dir>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/</dir>
	

<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/kde/3.3/share/fonts</dir>
 </fontconfig>

and xorg.conf

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...
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier     "keyboard1"
	Driver	   "kbd"
	Option	   "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	   "XkbLayout" "de_CH"
EndSection
...
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
   	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/local"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
    ###	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    	FontPath 	"/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
     	FontPath	"/usr/kde/3.3/share/fonts"
	FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"    
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/encodings/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/util/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/sharefont/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/lfp-fix/" 
     FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/unifont/"

and I removed old directorys from /etc/fonts/font.conf

After a reboot, all works fine here.

Gentree · Post by **Gentree** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:59 am

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

Just restarting X will be enough.

HTH.

Phlogiston · Post by **Phlogiston** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:48 pm

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

Just restarting X will be enough.

HTH.

Ok... but it didn't worked in my case, I don't know why....

e2k · Post by **e2k** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:44 pm

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 · Post by **makzu** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:22 pm

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.

nicenpretty · Post by **nicenpretty** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:29 pm

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 · Post by **Vann** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:26 pm

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 · Post by **r0ot** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:30 pm

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.

X.Org & Fonts

Xnview problem: X Error of failed request: BadName