I have the following truetype fonts installed:
They all show up when using a gtk2 based font selector, like the one in switch2 provided by gtk-theme-switch. However, none of them show up in gtk1 based font selectors like switch from gtk-theme-switch. Also, neither xlsfonts nor xfontsel list these fonts. I have done many searches of these forums for different terms but have not yet found any relevant information. I did find out that they are all defoma fonts. I also discovered that the FontPath setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the defoma fonts points to a path that doesn't exist... I would appreciate any information and/or suggestions you may have to help me try to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.

Just to be sure, I reinstalled all fonts. All looked fine except that when reinstalling the msttcorefonts, I get this warning:
All of the truetype fonts were actually installed into /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I wonder if the package maintainers have made a mistake?

Dear all,
I am running Kubuntu Dapper and have the same problem: when trying to select a font for the login screen (from kcontrol's login manager), none of my installed msttcorefonts show up.

Even when I cd'ed to /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/ and edited the .xml file of my login theme to force it to use Georgia, the font displayed at login was still the system-standard DejaVu Sans.

Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks,
Thanos

Well, I came up with a work around. I restored my backup of Gentoo. I don't know why mkfontdir wouldn't create fonts.dir files for these fonts in Ubuntu. When I have more time, I'll see about pulling the various fonts.* files from my Gentoo system and see if they will work (with or without modification) in Ubuntu.