Re: Still no fonts with gtkfb

[Vince Busam <vince phatnoise com>]

After much fighting, I found the culprit was freetype.  A downgrade from
2.1.0 to 2.0.9 fixed the problem.

Thanks,
Vince

On 29 May 2002, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Vince Busam <vince phatnoise com> writes:
>
> > I still can't get any fonts working with gtk/framebuffer on a netwinder.
> > Is there anywhere I can get an Xft configuration and fonts that are known
> > to work?
>
> the following XftConfig does work for me with GTK+ on DirectFB and
> X11. It should as well work for the LinuxFB backend. On X11 PangoXft
> is used if you set the environment variable GDK_USE_XFT to 1.
>
> You might need to adapt the font path and the family names I used.
>
>
> Salut, Sven
>
>
> /etc/X11/XftConfig
> ------------> cut here <------------
>
> dir "/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype"
>
> #
> # alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
> #
> match any family == "fixed"             edit family =+ "mono";
>
> #
> # Check users config file
> #
> includeif       "~/.xftconfig"
>
> #
> # Use truetype fonts for default faces
> #
> match any family == "serif"             edit family += "Times";
> match any family == "sans"              edit family += "Verdana";
> match any family == "mono"              edit family += "Courier";
>
> ------------> cut here <------------
>
>
>

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Vince Busam
http://www.phatnoise.com