using TTF fonts in X

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:38 Eitan Adler wrote:
> I have a folder with a bunch of TTF fonts.
> when I run mkfontdir the fonts.dir file is just a "0"
> and when I run xset +fp . I get
> % xset +fp .
> xset:  bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> % cat fonts.dir
> 0
> % ls -laod . fonts.dir
> drwxr-xr-x  2 eitan  eitan  - 14336 May 23 18:54:55 2010 ./
> -rw-r--r--  1 eitan  eitan  -     2 May 23 18:55:32 2010 fonts.dir

For TTF fonts you have to create a fonts.scale file first. Check the mkfontdir(1) and mkfontscale(1) manpages.