On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available >> font path folders and that should be all. > > It isn't that simple.
It is for the majority of applications. > With what you can get from dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config, the > fonts don't look too great and they look really awful in emacs-frames. (...) This can be a corner case that needs from manual intervention. For instance, I also had to create a "~/.fonts.conf" so Firefox does a proper font replacement but this kind of tweaks are not the norm and TrueType fonts are detected by the system and applications without a hitch. > It's arguable whether there should be some more options given by > fontconfig-config, including the ability to set user-specific defaults. It's always difficult to document the special cases :-) > --- On a side note, the tendency of splitting configurations into > numerous little files really should be stopped. It only makes it harder > and harder to find out what's going on :( Now it's called "being pluggable", we have to live with that (yes, it's quite annoying). > The Debian pages I could find about this weren't very good. I find the wiki page really good. Of course, it cannot detail all of the possible configurations. > BTW, is that only me, or does it become increasingly difficult to keep > a Debian system configured the way you want to because things become > ever more cryptic and hidden? It's not just you but I find is something generalized nowadays in the Linux ecosystem not juts Debian. > Or is that only due to hard- and software becoming more powerful and > complex? This can also affect to harden things, yes. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2kvfi$77j$6...@ger.gmane.org