[PLUG] ~/.fonts in RH 8

[Steven Raymond]

Try these directions.  The procedure below makes the ttfonts available to
all users, not just /home/username/.fonts.  "ttf_font_locale" is of course
wherever you have saved your ttfonts.  It works for sure with RH9, am not
positive about RH8.


> I have read in various news groups and web pages that
> if you place fonts in a directory named .fonts in your
> home directory then they will be automatically added to
> the X font server. However, I have never been able to
> get this *feature* to work. Does anyone have any ideas
> on how to get RH 8.0 to work in this manner?

1) Become root

2) follow directions:

host# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
host# cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
host# cp <ttf_font_locale>/*.ttf ./
host# mkfontdir
host# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
host# cd ..
host# fc-cache .

3) restart X-server

4) all done.


HTH