Fonts for the xfs font server

With xfs, the font directory needs to be added to the font catalogue in the file, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config (look for /etc/X11/fs/config if this file does not exist). The relevant section of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config should now look something like this:

  catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
              /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/

The name of the directory needs to be added only if it does not already exist.

Now, reload xfs, with,

  service xfs reload

While this should let you start using your newly-installed font, I have seen occasional problems where the new font is not immediately available. Hence, it is best to also restart the X server here, as described at the end of Sec. 3.2.2.