On Jan 13, 2008 11:33 AM, Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:00:57 -0400 > "Naiani Rosa de Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > 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
