On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 04:17:01PM +0530, Thaths wrote: > I am running a Debian etch machine (currently, testing). I would like > to install a ttf font that I like on this machine and get Mozilla and > gimp to see this font. How do I go about doing this? My X is using xfs > for its fonts. I think I need to make xfs aware of the new font. It > looks like defoma is used to manage the fonts. But I am unable to find > out how I use defoma with this ttf font.
I guess putting it into a directory like /usr/share/fonts/... and adding that to FontPath to xorg.conf would do. Actually, even defoma uses the fonts in /usr/share/fonts, it just adds symlinks to these in /var/lib/defoma and adds the defoma path is used in xorg.conf. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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