I don't really know if this is the same that happened to me, but, i have an almos fresh install of the lates ubuntu edgy, and i installed support for truetype fonts and added a few custom ones in /home/user/.fonts/, and set one of those in system-->preferences-->fonts, then i found that some apps (synaptic package manager) wouldn't recognize the font, so i read this bug and i thought, maybe adding some symlinks to the /usr/share/fonts/ directory and it's subdirectories can solve it. And it DID!!!.
Note for newbiers than me: if you want to make a symlink just 1.- open nautilus (file explorer) 2.- make a link to the folder where you have your fonts 3.- copy it <cntrl>+C 4.- delete the link 4.- close nautilus 5.- open terminal 6.- type: "sudo nautilus" (without quotes) 7.- type your password 8.- go to /usr/share/fonts/ and paste it 9.- paste it into /usr/shar/fonts/ 1st level subdirectories (don't know if this is necessary) 10.- close nautilus 11.- check if it worked Hope this helps, cheers -- [Edgy] fonts are not displayed in GTK1 applications https://launchpad.net/bugs/62300 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
