On 24.01.18 06:20, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> Built a new system, and it didn't have all the fonts that were on the
> old one. I looked for msttcorefonts as a package, and didn't find it. So
> I went through ports and found it, and some other font sets that I
> remembered from before, make, make build, make install.
>
> At the end of each make install I was advised to add the new fonts to my
> fontpath, but I don't know where that is lives, and apropos returns
> only XSetFontPath, XFreeFontPath, XGetFontPath(3), seemingly indicating
> that this is done programmatically.
>
> There are new directories in /usr/local/share/fonts.
>
> The new fonts do not show up in LibreOffice. I do, however, have many
> noto fonts for languages that I don't need to work with very often. So
> to speak.
>
> What have I missed?
>
> --
>
> Edward Ahlsen-Girard
> Ft Walton Beach, FL
In my ~/.xsession script I have the following part to make sure all font
paths get added when I log in:
xset fp default
for font in /usr/local/share/fonts/* ; do
xset fp+ $font
done
xset fp rehash
Cheers,
Bruno
