[Wine] Wine default font

David A. Woyciesjes david.woyciesjes at yale.edu
Wed Mar 28 15:02:38 CDT 2007


Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:15 -0400, David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
>> Declan Moriarty wrote:
>>> UltraUltraBoldSuperCondensed :-(.
>>>
>>> Have you made sure all windoze fonts are in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf (or
>>> equivelant?)
>> 	Hmmm, this might help with my Wine/MeetingMaker 7.5 issue (from 3/20, 
>> not all fonts not displaying). I don't have either fonts.dir or 
>> fonts.scale in my ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts directory. Where can I 
>> find out more about these files?
> 
> Man mkfontscale and man mkfontdir. Become root, cd to the directory, and
> run them. These files get searched by linux for usable fonts. Planty on
> hacking them on the web - adding lines, etc. Abiword's site also has
> very extensive font instructions, from memory, largely to stop people
> bellyaching about fonts to tham.
> 
>> 	As for /etc/X11/xorg.conf, should I adjust the Section "Files" to look 
>> like this?
>>
> If you have fontconfig and the xfs font server, then the things to fart
> about with is actually /etc/fonts/fonts.conf & /etc/fonts/local.conf.
> The files section is p[robably ok. Fonts.conf usually screams "leave me
> alone!" in the comments, so add your fontpaths to /etc/fonts/local.conf.
> Don't ask me on syntax

	Thanks for the pointers. I'll have a look...0

-- 
--- David Woyciesjes



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