On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:00, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: [snip] > > Hello, I'm very new to fedora, (just downloaded the 3 iso's today in fact) > So please pardon my ignorance. But I have a couple of stupid questions... > > 1) About copying to ~/.fonts: What exactly do you copy to the dir? The > font files themselves? Will symbolic links to said files work? Or what? > > 1b) Can I just copy trutype font files from my windows partition to ~/.fonts > to enable them for all my apps? Yup. You can simply copy the truetype fonts (.ttf) over to your ~/.fonts directory. I've never tried using symbolic links so I can't really say if it'll work. But you could always try. This should work for most Gnome applications. I think it doesn't work for OpenOffice.org though. Or does it? Anyone else with answers? > > 2) Isn't there a global place where root can put these to make them > accessible to all user accounts? I believe this has been answered by Aaron Matteson. So I'll skip it. =) > > Maybe these questions will be answered for me during the installation > process (in which case I apologize for wasting the lists time) But at > the moment, I just don't know much about fedora yet. Actually nope, these aren't "taught" during the installation. Definitely very unintuitive for those not yet used to it. Hope this helps. dex
