On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. It will config allfonts. whenever you > >add fonts do this.
> Followed your recommendation but this seems to be mostly about > font-rendering choices. I saw that it did regenerate fontconfig's font > cache but where it went looking for fonts is unclear. For instance if I > had copied the MS fonts to ~/msfonts.. how would it have found them..? > And where does the famed debian font manager - aka defoma.. come into > the picture..? > > Anyway, everything seems to be working no different than before I did > the "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" ... down to the output of fc-list.. > still spits out the same unprintable garbage. You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Then all fonts will be available. This is what I do in both sarge and sid. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
