For cases where there is distro package, I'd recommend extracting fonts to ~/fonts/ and restarting the session. I'm using this way in order to install new fonts with Unicode 6.0 glyphs.
😎 2011/5/30 Dov Grobgeld <[email protected]> > The xset mechanism is obsolete during the last years and have been > superseded by the concept of client side font. For Gtk and Qt this is > handled by fontconfig . To see the fonts that fontconfig supports do: > > fc-list > > To add additional fonts, it is typically enough to copy the font to > ~/.fonts . You can then check with fc-list that you managed to add the > fonts. > > Another option is to make use of the fact that MeeGo is rpm based and just > grab a rpm file from a different distribution and try to install it. Since > there are no binary executables in the font rpms, it should be pretty > straightforward unless the directory structure is different on MeeGo. > > Please give us a review of the WeTab and how you manage with Hebrew and > BiDi. > > Regards, > Dov > > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:52, Yosef Meller <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> So, I just bought a brand new WeTab, a device based on MeeGo. I bought it >> in Germany, and now I'm trying to get it to speak Hebrew. My first step is >> to install the culmus fonts so I can st least see Hebrew sites, but whatever >> I do, I can't get them recognized. >> >> What I did: >> I untarred the latest package (0.120) into /usr/share/X11/fonts/ and >> symlinked to it in /etx/X11/fontpath.d/ (the place indicated by `xset q`). I >> made sure that it has all permissions and ownerships like the other font >> dirs. >> >> Restarting the device, the font was not recognized. I tried using fc-cache >> on the directory, adding it with xset +fp ...; xset rehash, but the fonts >> don't show up neither in fc-list nor in xlsfonts. I also tried running >> mkfontsdir, which produced a fonts.dir file containing the string '0' and >> nothing more. >> >> How can I debug this? Is there any way I can have a verbose output of what >> directories are searched and why they are dropped? There's nothing in >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Or does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Yosef. >> >> PS - I'm doing all those experiments in a virtualbox image of the WeTab, I >> want to get it right before I abuse my actual hardware :) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com
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