It would appear that on Apr 4, Dexter Ang did say: > 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? Well I'm sure "HOPING" it does... <grin> as that is one of the places I want to use them. > > > > 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. =) > Yup he sure did (BTW: Thank you! (BOTH of you)) > > 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. No not "taught" but somewhere in the text viewable during a graphic install something mentioned some of it... (could it have been the release notes?) I may be very new to fedora, And didn't spend much time with my RH9 either. But I'm not a complete stranger to linux. And I'm real glad to find this very helpful list. I just hope that sometime I get knowledgeable enough to help some one else here so I can give a little back. I mean stranger things have happened, so maybe someday... > Hope this helps. > > dex Actually it does. And the presence of such helpful people helps even more! -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
