Setting up xfstt in Slack 7
Writen By: :strain:
This is how I got my true type fonts working in Slack 7. Follow these
steps to install xfstt on your Slack 7.0.0 Box (I hold no responsibilty
for damages.. none came to my box though) .
Assumptions:
a) You are dual booting Slack 7 and Windows.
installpkg *path to contrib dir on slack7 cd*/contrib/xfstt.tgz
This installs xfstt to /usr/bin/X11/xfstt which will not be executable at
boot time because it isn't in the default path before login time.
also, create /usr/share/fonts/truetype if it isn't there and copy the
ttf's from your c:\windows\fonts dir like this
cp *path to C*/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
so ...
create a file named /usr/bin/xfstt and make it
user executable with the contents of this
##################################
#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/bin/X11
./xfstt --port 8000 &
###################################
then edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and add this
####################################
echo "Starting Font Server...";
xfstt &
#####################################
but before you reboot into your new TTF'd glory..
edit /etc/XF86Config
and add this line
FontPath "unix/:8000"
to the top of the files section.
cd /usr/bin/X11
./xfstt --sync
Sensei's Note:
xfstt &
(Feel free to post any comments / Different methods, I had to use port
8000 because the default port didn't work correctly.)
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