Just clearing out my 'sent' box . . . . . .
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Subject: Fonts and Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:48 +0200
From: Richmond Mathewson
To: How to use Revolution
So there I am, merrily playing around with a Linux
standalone of my Deva
Richmond,
And usually when I am answering an Ubuntu question I find that I am
insulting the questioner, because they have already tried the suggestion
that I am making. It seems that once folks try Linux they become pretty
proficient at it pretty quickly. The 'net has made learning any number of
Sorry, Richmond. For as many times as people on this list call me "Mickey",
it was time for me to screw up someone else's name...
The good news is that it is not all-that-difficult to write shell scripts
that can do some of the work for you.
Also, maybe I'm not using the Linux version enough, bu
Damien Girard wrote:
Hi,
To install new font on Linux you must copy the file to
/usr/share/fonts or /home/username/.fonts/ and then rebuild the font
cache with:
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Merde! This really fantastic sort of stuff is part of what puts
ordinary people off Linux.
This is, at leas
Thanks, Damien. I'll try that.
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Op 24 nov 2009, om 20:16
Hi,
To install new font on Linux you must copy the file to /usr/share/fonts
or /home/username/.fonts/ and then rebuild the font cache with:
sudo fc-cache -f -v
For icons, take a look at xdg-desktop-menu and xdg-desktop-icon:
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-menu.html
h
Mikey wrote:
Richard - excuse me for asking a really basic question and insulting your
intelligence,
You are not insulting my intelligence; you are pointing out my ignorance -
the 2 are not the same thing . . . :)
but why not just
su
or sudo su
or sudo nautilus (if you are trying to bring u
Hi Mikey,
I don't know whether Richmond tried this, but I did and Rev doesn't
find the fonts.
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Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
Download Strõm Flow Chart Softw
Richard - excuse me for asking a really basic question and insulting your
intelligence, but why not just
su
or sudo su
or sudo nautilus (if you are trying to bring up a desktop window)?
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On the second day, God created the oceans.
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Hi,
Yes, this is a problem and I would appreciate a fail-safe solution.
On a slightly different note, I am looking for information about
correctly installing an application on Ubuntu, including adding the
programme to the correct category in the applications menu, putting my
custom icon on
So there I am, merrily playing around with a Linux
standalone of my Devawriter and find I am quite
unable to install the necessary font in:
/etc/fonts
as am not ROOT
this may prove a problem for others as well . . .
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