Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 06:58:55 schrieb dwain: > i'm trying very hard to make linux my production machine. i have many > fonts that i would like to install. i hope not to begin a flame war and i > understand the sentiments of using ubuntu of some on this list, but > whenever i install fontmatrix (version included with jaunty), firefox does > not display text. > > i know this because since reinstalling ubuntu and not fontmatrix i have not > had this problem. i have read on the list that the version in jaunty is > pretty buggy. is there another fontmanager that is available that is not > so buggy and wont make the text disappear in firefox? coming from windows, > i would like to have a gui. > > i have looked at defoma and find it difficult. i wouldn't even know how to > begin to install additional fonts and don't know if it will accept otf and > ps fonts. > > being still a novice to linux, i would appreciate any help. > > cheers, > dwain
I hate to say it, but this looks like another *buntu casualty to me. My advice: Stay away from *buntu if you want to do some serious work with Qt/KDE programs. At least for the time being. There are better distros out there. Christoph
