Description of Problem: With some extra truetype fonts installed, and xfs told about them, some apps can't use them. But I don't know there the bug is. xfontsel can display the fonts okay, but (for example) gimp can't, and OpenOffice can't display all of them. The set of fonts that work seems to be different depending on the app. But xfontsel seems to be happy with them all. I tried this experiment, to try to figure out where the problem is: 1. Install a 6.2 machine, and install some truetype fonts on it. 2. Fire up gimp (1.0), try to use the fonts. This works. 3. Set the DISPLAY to point to the X server on a Limbo2 machine and start gimp. 4. Try to use the fonts. This doesn't work. 5. Then run gimp from Milan (1.2) with its display set to the 6.2 machine. 6. Try to use the fonts. This doesn't work. ISTR this behaviour being the same for the last few releases, in that some fonts that used to work no longer do. Any ideas?
Assigning to XFree86, since fontconfig has nothing to do with the fonts that xfs reports. What fonts in particular aren't working? I'd guess it has something to do with encodings, maybe.
For example Dragonmaster from http://www.brrp.net/fonts.htm.
Step one says "Install a 6.2 machine".. Am I to assume you mean Red Hat Linux 6.2?
Yes of course.
If xfontsel can display the fonts, then the fonts are available to X applications. I don't see it as an XFree86 bug in this case. They're being served by the font server. If an application is GNOME/KDE/GTK/QT based, we have antialiasing enabled by default. In this case Xft2 is used for fonts, and XFree86 and xfs are out of the picture. Anyone else have any suggestion for this?
Mysterious, this works fine with current rawhide.