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Date:      Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:25:45 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE2 & TrueType font problem
Message-ID:  <3ACF0749.E5662ECC@gmx.de>
References:  <9125484324.20010403153242@21cn.com>

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> I have installed KDE2 from ports, it looks like OK.
> but I can not let KDE2 see TrueType Font I have installed.
> I have loaded freetype module in /etc/XF86Config.
> xlsfonts can see my installed truetype font.
> I opened KDE Control Center, in Look & Feel, I can not
> set my installed TrueType fonts. KDE2 can only see stock
> XFree86-4 font.
> 
> why?

Don't know exactly, but it was the same for me. I now added the lines
NO_X=true
XFREE86_VERSION=4
in /etc/make.conf and recompiled XFree4.0.3 (don't touch the default
answers of the questions it will ask in the beginning), QT2.3 (will
allow for anti-aliased fonts) and KDE2.1.1 . In my XF86Config I have
(don't know if this is in by default, as I'm using a hand-crafted one)
Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xie"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "speedo"
EndSection

klauncher is setting QT_XFT=0 as environment variable. Look if this is
true for you, too.

Now I'm a happy camper, no UNIX Desktop looked ever so good (MS hired
really one of the best font designers to create Verdana :-) ). BTW, in
some "TrueType for XFree" FAQs, there were hints that freetype will
only recognize fonts in lower-case letters and therefore a link to
your Win font directory would fail. But that wasn't true for me.

bash-2.04$ ls -ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20  3 Apr 01:37
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType@
-> /win/c/WINDOWS/FONTS
bash-2.04$

I made the fonts.scale with ttmkfdir from the ports.

Hope that helps

Siegbert

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