TTF-font rendering not working anymore

Sat Nov 15 20:17:00 GMT 2003

> After the recent XFree86-freetype2-fontconfig upgrade of Oct 29, the
> rendering of TTF fonts does not work anymore for me. My TTF fonts are
> still listed correctly e.g. with 'xlsfonts' but /not/ displayed on
> screen anymore e.g. with 'xfontsel', 'xfd'...

> Also xterm continues to work fine, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Luxi Mono" -fs 16'
> produces correct anti-aliased fonts.

> My Cygwin (XFree86) installation is up-to-date.

> Fridger

Since nobody has responded yet to my message of Nov. 10 and (an analogous
one from a second user), I wonder whether TTF font rendering in
X-applications  works for everyone but me with the latest updates?! Also
the X-fontserver 'xfs' still appears to be broken...

Fridger