Re: fonts, xft2, and gtk2: I am confused

[Klaus Dahlke <klaus dahlke gmx de>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:42:12 -0400
Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:05, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > please excuse this dumb question, but I am somehow confuded about the font handling: 
> > 
> > When I run gnome-2.4, I use GDK_USE_XFT=0 in my .xinitrc before I start gnome. I can then select basically all the fonts declared in XF86Config. When setting GDK_USE_XFT=1, only the truetype fonts are shown.
> > 
> > After installing gnome-2.6 I can only select only the truetype fonts (GDK_USE_XFT=0), whereas gfontsel, xfontsel etc show all fonts declared in XF86Config. I haven't changed any configuration. I am little confused.
> 
> Add all those fonts declared in XFree86 config to your fontconfig
> configuration file.  (/etc/fonts/local.conf or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf) 
> GNOME uses fontconfig exclusively, so if it doesn't know about the font,
> GNOME won't know about them.  Previously fontconfig only supported
> TrueType fonts so the GDK_USE_XFT hack was necessary (tho unfortunate,
> since it killed good font rendering).  Now fontconfig supports all fonts
> that XFree86 does, so the hack is no longer needed.  You just need to
> tell fontconfig about the fonts.
> 
> > 
> > Any help is appritiated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Klaus
> -- 
> Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.

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Sean,
thanks for the help. It works now, basically. Some fonts look weird like Helvetica. The font look like each character is followed by a blank, so huge spacing between two characters. I have a similar setup to this (SUSE+some own compilation) on a gentoo-box, where this doesn't happen .... Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Klaus