Fonts on customized root file system

[arun_vj]

Hi All,

I am newbie, I am facing a problem with the fonts on my customized root file system. We have built our own root file system with X11 support and running a Qt based application on it but not able to get the desired fonts in the application. Its slightly different than what I see when I run the same application on a Fedora core 8 Live cd image.

The version of XOrg on the Fedora core live cd was 1.3.0 and that we are using now on customized root file system is 1.7.3

We basically need San Serif and Courier fonts in our application and have ttf files related to these on our customized file system. I even tried copying the /etc/fonts and /usr/share/fonts folders from Live cd to my customized root file system, but was of no use. I do not have any idea how to go about it now. Looking for some help here..

Thanks,
Arun.

[kai12]

hi Arun.

I'm not sure what you mean by "customized root file system", it sound like you have a minimal linux setup, that is no standard distribution, is that about correct?

one thing to check is whether you have a font server running that is able to provide your truetype fonts, i.e.

xfstt            - X11 Font Server for TrueType fonts

cheers, kai