Re: tt font/xft font not available everywhere

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

iirc correctly, the app using the font has to be restarted to see newly
added fonts.  the font selector works because it was launched after the
font was added.  at least, this is the case on redhat8's hacked up
gnome2.0 ;-)

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:47, Alan wrote:
> Hi all.   Just got gnome2.2 up with gentoo and it looks and feels
> *awsome*.  Huge congrats to all involved.  One thing that is a bit odd
> that I thought I'd ask here though.
> 
> As I understand it, if you dump fonts to ~/.fonts they automagically
> become available to xft2 (gnome2.2) apps. 
> 
> So I copied a favorite font of mine, SF Grunge Sans into .fonts loaded
> up the font prefs app, and it was there!  I set it as my desktop font
> and hit apply... and my desktop font changed to the default (I think) of
> just plain old sans.
> 
> If you hit http://arcterex.net/stuff/ttfont-not-working.png you'll see
> what I mean.  The font size works fine, but for whatever reason, it
> shows up properly in the font prefs (indicating to me that the font is
> loaded and available), but not to the application (nautilus). 
> 
> Any ideas?  Do I need to restart X or nautilus to get the font available
> maybe?
> 
> Alan
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
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