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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:57:03 +1100
From:      Brett Wiggins <s3682305@student.rmit.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   trying to get fonts working in X11
Message-ID:  <CA%2B3bzRKcmPDK8WGC8mk0uF5YwdvHyzPjuRC1xbZoA134E7ts7w@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

I am having issues installing and getting fonts to work in X. I have
consulted the handbook page (
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html)
and have installed a few fonts. The fonts I have installed are on my system
here;

/usr/local/share/fonts

I have used xset to try and set fonts for example roboto-fonts-ttf;

xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/roboto-fonts-ttf
xset fp rehash

I have done so with a few of the fonts. Here is a list of fonts installed
on my system;

total 216
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel  69120 Nov 26 17:19 100dpi
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel  79360 Nov 26 17:18 75dpi
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1024 Nov 26 17:17 OTF
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1024 Nov 26 17:17 TTF
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel    512 Nov 28 19:37 TrueType
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1536 Nov 26 17:17 Type1
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel    512 Nov 27 05:56 cantarell
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   3072 Nov 26 17:18 cyrillic
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1536 Nov 26 17:18 dejavu
drwxrwxrwx  3 root  wheel   2048 Nov 26 17:17 encodings
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   4608 Nov 28 19:10 freefonts
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel  15360 Nov 26 17:18 misc
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1024 Nov 29 17:14 roboto-fonts-ttf
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   4096 Nov 28 19:09 urwfonts
drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel   1024 Nov 26 17:17 util

Is the ownership of the directories or files a problem? I changed all of
the directories to 777 but that doesn't seem to do anything. I have run
xset on every directory, but in my dekstop applications such as firefox,
the text is still hard to read. Below is info regarding my system. Any help
would be appreciated.

FreeBSD beastie 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21
02:08:28 UTC 2017
root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
amd64

xorg-7.7_3                     X.Org complete distribution metaport
xorg-apps-7.7_2                X.org apps meta-port
xorg-cf-files-1.0.6            X.org cf files for use with imake builds
xorg-docs-1.7.1,1              X.org documentation files
xorg-drivers-7.7_5             X.org drivers meta-port
xorg-fonts-7.7_1               X.org fonts meta-port
xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.7          X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.7           X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.7        X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.7     X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-truetype-7.7_1      X.Org TrueType fonts
xorg-fonts-type1-7.7           X.Org Type1 fonts
xorg-libraries-7.7_2           X.org libraries meta-port
xorg-macros-1.19.1             X.Org development aclocal macros
xorg-server-1.18.4_4,1         X.Org X server and related programs


hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
hw.machine: amd64
hw.ncpu: 8

Thank you for your time,

Brett.



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