On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:34:30AM +0200, Yaniv Almog wrote: > Shalom, > > 1. I have recently installed Microsoft's TTF fonts on my Fedora core > partition. I have installed them both with ttmkfdir and fc-cache. > However, I am getting squares on my screen when I try to view them on > my screen. I didn't have that problem with Redhat 9. any possible > explanation and, of course, a solution?
There are two separate font mechanisms used for X programs: The older one, the "core fonts": fonts with names such as '-culmus-nachlieli-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-8' (actually: the '*' are wild cards). Most programs in your desktop don't use it. There is also Xft2/fontconfig. Its main config file is /etc/fonts/fonts.conf . However there is generally no need to edit it, as it already includes /usr/share/fonts/ and everything under it. However if every client would have needed to scan all the tree under /usr/share/fonts upon startup this would have been a waste of time. This is why Xft maintains a cache of fonts. The command fc-cache is for maintaining it. So to install a font you need to create a subdirectory under /usr/share/fonts , put your fonts there, and then update the cache using fc-cache. ttmkfdir is unnecessary (except if you use the obsolete Xft1. And if you don't use RH73 or Mandrake 8.2(?) you probably don't use it). It is required if you want to make the fonts avialable as core fonts. But this is for a different message (needed?) > > 2. Last June I installed a PPTP client (from pptpclient.sourceforge.net) > to connect my computer through the cables to the Technion VPN server. It > worked smoothly for two months but then, in August, because of > Blasterworm, the Technion made some changes, one of them was to block > the ping port. Since then I cannot connect to the internet. The PPTP > clent dies off approximately one minuet after it starts (the login > process works fine). Any ideas how to solve the problem? (I can still > connect from my XP partition) One guess: Sounds like a routing problem: your default route becomes the pptp target, and then you try to send even the pptp tunnel packets through that connection. What is the output of 'route -n' immidetly after a disconnection? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
