On Thursday 20 February 2003 02:27 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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 >
Yep, I told you it had been a while. Thanks for completing the instructions. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
