Re: tt font/xft font not available everywhere
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: tt font/xft font not available everywhere
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:10:57 -0500
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:47:56AM -0800, 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?
>
Yeah you have to restart nautilus I think, because Pango doesn't
reload the font list. Something that should definitely be on the Pango
1.4 feature list.
Havoc
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