Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:00:57 -0400
"Naiani Rosa de Barros" <naiani.princess@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the location fonts:/// does not exist on Xfce, so the
> installation has to be manual.
> I ended up finding this other article on Gentoo-Wiki,
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XFS_and_Custom_Fonts , which works well.
> The only thing I don't like is having to run ttmkfdir > fonts.scale,
> mkfontdir, /etc/init.d/xfs restart everytime I want to add a new font.
> But I guess it's a small price to pay.
> Thank you guys!
> 

You usually don't need to. Kde should pick the fonts just the same
moment you install them. Other X programs need a re-building of the
font cache. That is done when X is restarted, but you can also do it
manually on a term with something like this:

xset fp rehash

That will re-read all the font dirs (the default gentoo configuration
include system dirs and also local dirs, like ~/.fonts/). If you want
to add a font path, you need to issue this other command before the
one above:

xset +fp /new/path
of
xset fp+ /new/path

To prepend or append a new path, then rehash it as shown above.

The xfs solution is something that is mostly deprecated, and it is a
resource waste and a completely useless thing on a desktop machine. I
don't recommend the xfs stuff at all.
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Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>
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