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the
Files
section. Display the actual FontPath with
xset q
. This path may also be
changed at runtime with
xset
. To add an additional path, use
xset +fp <path>
.
To remove an unwanted path, use
xset -fp <path>
.
If the X server is already active, newly installed fonts in mounted directories can be
made available with the command
xset fp rehash
. This command is executed by
SuSEconfig --module fonts
. Because the command
xset
needs access to the
running X server, this only works if
SuSEconfig --module fonts
is started from
a shell that has access to the running X server. The easiest way to achieve this is to as-
sume
root
permissions by entering
su
and the root password.
su
transfers the access
permissions of the user who started the X server to the root shell. To check if the fonts
were installed correctly and are available by way of the X11 core font system, use the
command
xlsfonts
to list all available fonts.
By default, SUSE Linux Enterprise uses UTF-8 locales. Therefore, Unicode fonts should
be preferred (font names ending with
iso10646-1
in
xlsfonts
output). All available
Unicode fonts can be listed with
xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1
. Nearly all
Unicode fonts available in SUSE Linux Enterprise contain at least the glyphs needed
for European languages (formerly encoded as
iso-8859-*
).
26.2.2 Xft
From the outset, the programmers of Xft made sure that scalable fonts including an-
tialiasing are supported well. If Xft is used, the fonts are rendered by the application
using the fonts, not by the X server as in the X11 core font system. In this way, the re-
spective application has access to the actual font files and full control of how the glyphs
are rendered. This constitutes the basis for the correct display of text in a number of
languages. Direct access to the font files is very useful for embedding fonts for printing
to make sure that the printout looks the same as the screen output.
In SUSE Linux Enterprise, the two desktop environments KDE and GNOME, Mozilla,
and many other applications already use Xft by default. Xft is already used by more
applications than the old X11 core font system.
Xft uses the fontconfig library for finding fonts and influencing how they are rendered.
The properties of fontconfig are controlled by the global configuration file
/etc/
fonts/fonts.conf
and the user-specific configuration file
~/.fonts.conf
.
Each of these fontconfig configuration files must begin with
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