HOWTO? Install TrueType fonts (not MS freefonts) onto Fedora 10

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Ted Roche<tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Simonson (http://www.marksimonson.com/) has posted a
> freely-distributable fixed-width font I'd like to try out as a
> programmers font. It comes as a TrueType font. Up to now, I've just
> worked with the fonts provided with the distribution and haven't tried
> to install a font. Googling for some directions give irrelevant and
> obsolete (FC3!) guidance. Trying the GNOME help tells me to use a font
> preference tool I haven't been able to locate (System|Preferences|Look
> & Feel|Fonts lets me choose from installed fonts, but no option to
> install.
>
> Can someone point me to a good resource or HOWTO on
> installing/converting a TrueType font to work in F10/X/GNOME?
>
> Tia,
>

If you have KDE, open up Dolphin, go to 'fonts:/Personal'. Open up a
new Dolphin window. Drag fonts from new dolphin window to
'fonts:/Personal'


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