From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEBFz-0001nr-A8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:24:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DC4CE07D5; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EFAE0780 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1867892fga.14 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:24:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=B+FUd+tIYwukdilDOm2vgRbClGn0NX/M7MjVzQYkoD4=; b=DwxeydnTs1Re0XoJdo0azKGGJAwLPSXjxQfAMvw2LknE58GYZnwCKzUaAVKwbUwn5t45qMNpMEFs9jKSADzVT3N1ZpZ3yevaRMojB/zc5YyjEEc0B5kumZhFpQ6fDSZK3HEJrzO9k0S7SPEtdRJBmkE/DPHeA4gONv8xYBop9g8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Pj+X99I4UB4b71zJeNJ4I8qGk+7pVJP+A0cI/N8Nbdsw9j3LzSnsVtVIbSn8847F4EaFayKLSy/bJ7+8zS7Rg9qrQwbu/pKY1wigr98ReuZb28OAdINCDJKnOsJHrDLZECFWsTjXgHH1FP5609rYOO6fdjHf8yUvzvIX63QsdfE= Received: by 10.78.132.2 with SMTP id f2mr6572136hud.44.1200263057381; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.44.19 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:24:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9fde06020801131424l355501cfxa2f9c8bc65fa1ba7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:24:17 -0400 From: "Naiani Rosa de Barros" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts In-Reply-To: <20080113163335.80044923.i92guboj@terra.es> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <9fde06020801120946y4499fcc5vb46d763d2fefb092@mail.gmail.com> <20080113120508.GA14496@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> <9fde06020801130700q2df8820ue9e7fbc2110b6528@mail.gmail.com> <20080113163335.80044923.i92guboj@terra.es> X-Archives-Salt: c5124709-ad6b-4bb2-8f0f-3b16bc8ee145 X-Archives-Hash: 5b1d5de63fa6a529e98ff86a5eb97f17 On Jan 13, 2008 11:33 AM, Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:00:57 -0400 > "Naiani Rosa de Barros" 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. > > -- > Jes=FAs Guerrero > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Thanks for the tip, I didn't know xfs was deprecated. I used this solution because it was the only one I could find. Xfce doesn't have a font utility, so I need to do it manually. I'll try this other way and see what I can get. Naiani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list