Re: fonts

["David O'Callaghan" <david ocallaghan ul ie>]

I added the freefonts and sharefonts to my system then added the following to
my startup file, .bashrc,

xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont
xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont
xset fp rehash

Hope this helps.

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Vic scribbled:
> That is a very good question.
> I tried to dump a couple of .ttf files under the truetype
> directory and it does not even know they are there,
> but these were unzipped from a dos .zip file
> so I wonder sinve they were from a dos thing if they are
> in such a format than linux cannot understand the files.
> 
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Daniel wrote:
> > I'm trying to install some new fonts. I've found the directory in the
> > X11 tree where the other fonts live. Can I just chuck the new ones in
> > here, in a different directory?
> > 
> > Do I have to do anything else?
> > 
> > Daniel.
> > 
> > 
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