Font help?
'lo.
I've been poking around with fonts, given that I'm a little tired of the few that came with my distro and such. I've followed these instructions from tldp.org as closely as I possibly can, however as soon as I try to add the directory with my (TrueType) fonts to the font path (xset fp+ /fontdirectoryhere) it gives me some errors I've had a hard time nailing down:
X Error of failed request: 86
Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
Serial number of failed request: 8
Current serial number in output stream: 10
I found something on SuSE's webpage that suggests the fonts.dir file in this directory is bad, but I have no idea how to go about fixing it. I also found something on an abiword mailing list that suggests adding:
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
to my /etc/X11/X86Config file, but doing this makes it impossible to start X because it can't parse the file.
I've got no idea where to go from here, so I figured I'd post in here for suggestions. If it matters greatly or helps at all, I'm running RedHat 7.3. Help will be much appreciated. :-)
I've been poking around with fonts, given that I'm a little tired of the few that came with my distro and such. I've followed these instructions from tldp.org as closely as I possibly can, however as soon as I try to add the directory with my (TrueType) fonts to the font path (xset fp+ /fontdirectoryhere) it gives me some errors I've had a hard time nailing down:
X Error of failed request: 86
Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
Serial number of failed request: 8
Current serial number in output stream: 10
I found something on SuSE's webpage that suggests the fonts.dir file in this directory is bad, but I have no idea how to go about fixing it. I also found something on an abiword mailing list that suggests adding:
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
to my /etc/X11/X86Config file, but doing this makes it impossible to start X because it can't parse the file.
I've got no idea where to go from here, so I figured I'd post in here for suggestions. If it matters greatly or helps at all, I'm running RedHat 7.3. Help will be much appreciated. :-)
