On Thursday 20 February 2003 03:42, Collins wrote: > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 05:24 pm, Robert Cole wrote: > > If I have ttf fonts from a windows system in a directory can I (and > > should I) add that to the list in /etc/X11/XF86Config ?? Seems like I > > should. That true? Or should I use KDE font installer to add them to an > > existing directory? > > Don't know about the KDE font installer. > > What I do is: > > 1. copy the ttf fonds to a directory You forget either a call to ttmkfdir or mkfontscale, to make the fonts.scale file. mkfontdir does not detect scaled fonts which almost all truetype fonts are.
> 2. execute mkfontdir > 3. execute fc-cache > 4. Add to the list in XF86Config > 5. Restart the X server > > Not sure about the sequence of 3-5. Maybe it should be 4-5-3? It's been a > while. Depending on your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf you need to ensure that this dir is also listed there. fontconfig recurses, so you don't need to add subdirs Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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