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Re: [LUG] Truetype fonts gone walkabout



Personally, I have to say that I have had not an entirely pleasant experience 
using Debian as a desktop system, although I'm quite happy with it as a 
non-graphical server.  Anyway to answer your question, here's my 
experience...

Start KDE control centre and select 'look and feel' - 'fonts' .  If truetype 
fonts are not there but you know that the font server has them available then 
select the 'Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts' option, apply settings and restart 
the X server .  Go back to the same dialog and truetype fonts might be there. 
I couldn't figure out much logic to the process but it worked for me.  

This didn't mean an end to my font problems however. After I had set 
everything up, on the next reboot all fonts seemed to display in a very much 
larger size on the screen.  I decided to get rid of the Xft font server and 
let X handle truetype fonts itself.  Can't remember if this solved many 
problems 'cos after that ran into problems with sound in kde - think it might 
have been something I installed.  Anyway, have only used the most primitive 
window manager the last few days 'cos I have decided to blast my way through 
Quake2 (again) - at the moment it seems to be a more rewarding experience 
than configuring Debian. 

Tony

On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:39 am, admin wrote:
Debian Linux

Had Gnome GUI and got MS Truetyoe fonts installed through the long and
tortuous process...

Have decided to change to KDE 'cos it suits my migration from RISC OS
better etc.

However, MS TT fonts are not available now.

Any quick answers or do I have to find some other long and tortuous process
to get them back?

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