Re: Fonts with Gtk2

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Knut Neumann <knut neumann uni-duesseldorf de> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I started fiddling with fonts (as everyone else seems to do) a few days
> ago and noticed that I can get gtk2 working with ms-fonts but no more.
> Some more tweaking brought to the light, that I can get every font I
> downloaded working with x (eg have it listed in xfontsel) but not
> working with gdk/xft (at least it does not show up in
> gnome-font-properties)..it seems like it depends upon the font - but I
> do not actually have any idea on what property..
> 
> Can anyone help out? I would appreciate any hint!

Fonts for Xft are configured in /etc/X11/XftConfig; you need
to make sure that the directory you have the MS fonts installed
in is listed.

Regards,
                                        Owen