On Thu December 18 2008, Aneurin Price wrote: > Do you know you're actually using a font server? I ask because I haven't > seen one in nearly a decade.
no, no font server, but that was all I found on a google search.. Though most of the hits were from 2002-2004.. > > Have you tried simply copying the ttf file into $(HOME)/.fonts/? This has > been sufficient for me for at least a couple of years, but it's possible > that there's some DE magic happening behind the scenes (works with both > Gnome and KDE at least, but I don't know if either is required). I don't > believe I've had to restart anything other than the application in which I > want to use the new font. I have a .fonts folder, but it is emtpy. All of my fonts are in /usr/share/fonts. and I did run fc-cache, and once I restarted kmail, the new font was available.. so I think I have my answer. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
