Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > In the DejaVu Fonts installation instructions shown on the Xorg configuration > page, the instructions seem to need an update. First, the fonts are now in a > subdirectory of the source directory, so the installation of the TTF files > do not work as shown in the book. > > However, the reason I'm asking is that there are .conf files shipped in the > tarball that are designed to be installed in /etc/fonts/conf.d, yet there is > no instruction to install them. Are they required, or do they help fontconfig > in the use of the DejaVu fonts, or can these files be reasonably dismissed?
I don't know the answer to your question, but there is /etc/fonts/conf.d/README. It indicates the .conf files go in conf.avail/ and conf.d/ should have links there. I have no idea why fontconfig does this. I do have the dejavu fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts/dejavu, but nothing about them in /etc/fonts. AFAICT, they work for me. They do show up in seamonkey. arch does have some explanation at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Fontconfig_configuration, but from that the best I can tell. the .conf files are for tweaks not built into the .ttf files. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
