Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

[Naiani Rosa de Barros]

On Jan 13, 2008 11:33 AM, Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:00:57 -0400
> "Naiani Rosa de Barros" <naiani.princess@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, the location fonts:/// does not exist on Xfce, so the
> > installation has to be manual.
> > I ended up finding this other article on Gentoo-Wiki,
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XFS_and_Custom_Fonts , which works well.
> > The only thing I don't like is having to run ttmkfdir > fonts.scale,
> > mkfontdir, /etc/init.d/xfs restart everytime I want to add a new font.
> > But I guess it's a small price to pay.
> > Thank you guys!
> >
>
> You usually don't need to. Kde should pick the fonts just the same
> moment you install them. Other X programs need a re-building of the
> font cache. That is done when X is restarted, but you can also do it
> manually on a term with something like this:
>
> xset fp rehash
>
> That will re-read all the font dirs (the default gentoo configuration
> include system dirs and also local dirs, like ~/.fonts/). If you want
> to add a font path, you need to issue this other command before the
> one above:
>
> xset +fp /new/path
> of
> xset fp+ /new/path
>
> To prepend or append a new path, then rehash it as shown above.
>
> The xfs solution is something that is mostly deprecated, and it is a
> resource waste and a completely useless thing on a desktop machine. I
> don't recommend the xfs stuff at all.
>
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> Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>
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>

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know xfs was deprecated. I used this
solution because it was the only one I could find. Xfce doesn't have a
font utility, so I need to do it manually. I'll try this other way and
see what I can get.

Naiani
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