fonts directly from the windowsfonts directory. Just mount the windows

partition and add the font's directory to the FontPath in your xfs

config or in you XF86config file. More on this later.

You need to create a fonts.dir file that lists the fonts in your

directory. You will need the ttmkdir utility which you can get here

( http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz ). Red

Hat 6 and above already include this utility.

Untar the tar.gz

tar zxvf ttmkfdir.tar.gz

cd ttmkfdir

cp ttmkfdir.linuxbin.glibc2 /usr/bin/ttmkfdir

Go to the directory where you placed the fonts.

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

Run ttkmkfdir with the following command.

ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir

In Red Hat you can give the following command to add the True Type fonts

directory to your list of font paths and restart the X font server.

chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

That is all you need to do to get True Type fonts into Red Hat and Red

Hat'ish distributions.

Other distributions require a little more work before they can start using

True Type fonts.

Create a new file /etc/xfstf.conf with the following contents

client-limit = 10

clone-self = off

use-syslog = off

error-file = /var/log/xfs.errors

# in decipoints

default-point-size = 120

# x,y

default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/morettf,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/evenmorettf

The great thing about this font server is that it can serve fonts to

remote clients too. Set up this font server on your network and you can

serve fonts to everyone on it. Way better than individually configuring

each computer.

Red Hat, with an eye on security, has modified the font server so that it

will serve fonts only to the local computer. You will need to make a few

changes to allow xfs to serve fonts remotely.

Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs

Look for a line that says "daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon -port -1". Remove

the -droppriv part and the -port part. Restart the font server and you're