Fonts on X

karlp at ourldsfamily.com karlp at ourldsfamily.com
Fri Sep 1 15:08:47 UTC 2006


Some time ago, there was a note about putting fonts into X for use with both
the display and OpenOffice.org, etc.

I kept the docs and had used them on a couple FC4 systems and a RH8.0 system
with success.

I've upgraded 2 of the systems to FC5 and the same processes don't work.

Here's what I do:

unzip/untar fonts to /usr/share/X11/fonts/NEWFONTDIR
cd NEWFONTDIR
mkfontdir -a `pwd`
mkfontscale
chkfontpath -a `pwd`
service xfs restart

So, what am I missing? Even a dreaded MS-like reboot did nothing. I've checked
permissions and whatever else I could think of with a fuzzy brain.

I did find a small set of windows fonts in an RPM online somewhere during the
late hours last night. It's rpm was created by the author of the web page and
is: msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

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