Re: [Freetype] How to get list of fonts?

[Ramiro Estrugo]

I wrote code to reap the fonts from the X font server config.  Thats how
we polulate the Nautilus font picker, for example:

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/eel/eel/eel-font-manager.h#42

This solution completely bypasses the X server.  So far it works pretty 
well on "standard" Linux systems.

-re

Lars Clausen wrote:
> 
> This sounds to me like a silly question, but I have found nothing in the
> FAQ, archives or manpages.
> 
> I'm trying to use FreeType to do fonts for Dia
> <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html>.  However, FreeType
> expects a filename, and all I get from X is a font name.  I've found no way
> of going that extra step to get a (somewhat system-independent) list of
> font files.  The demos just have hardcoded filenames.  What is the standard
> way to do this?  I really want to avoid yet another font dir configuration
> list.
> 
> -Lars
>