On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:48:11PM -0700, Von Fugal wrote: > I've been digging all over about how to load more fonts into the X font > server, and have found some quick and painless techniques for installing > your own fonts. First put them in a directory, and run mkfontscale if you > have any ttf's then mkfontdir. Then you simply put > xset +fp /path/to/fontdir/ > in .xsession or something like it. This works great except one problem, > which is what I'm seeking help on. The fonts contained in said directory > show up in xfontsel and in a few apps (gimp and ooffice are the only two > I've found them in, and ooffice only on school computers and not at work) > but I have found no way to get at the fonts in other apps, most desirably > gaim, mozilla, and gvim. Does anyone know what might be the problem here, or > how to get around this nuisance? Any ideas would be appreciated.
You are using all the right steps to get them to appear in most X applications that don't use fontconfig. To get the fontconfig apps to see the fonts you either have to add a line like this to ~/.fonts.conf (/etc/fonts/local.conf if you are root on the box): <dir>/path/to/fontdir</dir> You can also just drop the TrueType fonts in ~/.fonts/ and apps that use fontconfig should find them. -- --------------------------------+----------------------------------- Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --------------------------------+----------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68
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