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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:16:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
To:        flux <flux@hotbox.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TTF fonts in XFree86
Message-ID:  <20031223131615.65841.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1312809706.20031224090718@hotbox.ru>

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I believe its the xset command. You have to have x
search its database for the new fonts.

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Howto/Font-HOWTO/xfonts.html

xset fp rehash

The above should do the trick for you.

Pete
--- flux <flux@hotbox.ru> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   I want to use TrueType font collection from MS
> Windows. I mounted my
> FAT32 partition on my FreeBSD box and copied all
> *.TTF files from
> C:\WINDOWS\Fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
> directory. Then
> I added the following line into my
> /etc/X11R6/XF86Config:
> 
> FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> 
> and performed startx. The thing is, those TTF fonts
> are still
> unavailable and my WindowMaker doesn't see them as
> well. Would
> you please try to explain me what's wrong.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  flux                          mailto:flux@hotbox.ru
> 
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