From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 17:29:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB0237B406 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 17:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.246.211.76.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.211.76] helo=sparky) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 174WNt-00005k-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 17:29:46 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bernie Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 20:29:01 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020505202821.I242-100000@BLAST> Message-Id: <54FEMIVXTUO65USGE9PITQTNSMMJ.3cd5ce4d@sparky> Subject: Re: X11 font problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Opera 6.02 build 1097 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 5/5/2002 1:32:55 PM, Bernie wrote: > >hi, > >i got x11 and seems to work ok appart from one thing. > >in many cases, it does't display characters correctly. for example >if i run abiword and hit the about box, i can't read anything >in there. all i get is little squares instead of characters. > >this also happens with xchat that i tried today. is there some >known setting? or do i have to get a particular font from >ports/x11 and install it? > >i was thinking to try all the fonts in there but they are quite >large and would take ages to d/l from a 56k connection... > >thanx for your help. > > >Regards, > >Bernie What version of X are you running? XFree-4 will be easier to do the following with than XFree-3: If you have a Win partition handy, copy the TrueType fonts (the *.ttf and *.TTF files) from there to a TrueType directory you've created where the rest of your X font directories live. (If you don't have a Win partition around, there are TrueType font sources on the Web.) Then cd to your newly populated TrueType fonts directory and ttmkfdir > fonts.dir (If you don't have ttmkfdir installed, it installs quickly from ports - it's one of the printing ports, IIRC.) Then set up your X config file to "see" the new TrueType fonts directory. (There are a couple of good tutorials on the Web about how to do this. As I said, it's easier - very easy, in fact - with XFree-4.) That should provide you with the fonts your documents are calling for. When you don't have the correct font, you see the little squares. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message