Re: Installing fonts

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:42, Nick Wilson wrote:
> 
> * and then Bret Hughes declared....
> > > > added the lines to what?  did you restart the font server?
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I added them to the file mentioned above, /etc/X11/fs/config
> > > 
> > > I didn't restart the server (i don't know how?) but I rebooted the
> > > system. Is that not enough, is there somthing else I should do?
> > > 
> > service xfs restart should have done it I believe but a restart should
> > have done it too.
> > 
> > try running chkfontpath and see if it picked up the new path
> 
> Right, it's got it!
> 
> Problem is the GIMP doesn't (under kde)? Thanks for the pointers, is
> there some list somewhere of all these handly little service
> starts/stops and tools like chkfontpath?
> 
> I only seem to find them on this list when I have to ask questions which
> is not ideal ;-)
> 

Well, I'm not sure about the service command ( it was around for over a
year before I heard about it ) but for a good start on general usage the
redhat books available at redhat.com/support are very good and also come
on the documentation cd.  For other docs about specific commands you can
see a post I made a while back about how I typically search for
information.  You can find it at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&m=103912531023042&w=2


HTH

Bret