Re: TrueType fonts not showing up

[neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)]

Steve Blinkhorn:
> I would be grateful for a pointer to a description of how to ensure
> TrueType fonts in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/TTF are available for use.
> I have some, but they don't show up with xlsfonts, so I imagine
> there's some misconfiguration or lack of configuration.  I last
> tangled with X11 fonts a looong time ago.

Scalable fonts get managed with "font-config", for example:

	fc-list
	fc-list :scalable=true:spacing=mono: family

	xterm -fa 'Luxi Mono' -fs 24


						HTH, Martin Neitzel