It would appear that on Apr 5, Douglas Furlong did say: > On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 18:00, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > 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? > > I just copied the contents of my Fonts directory from windows in to the > above, and they all appeared on the next reboot. Wasn't sure what I > needed to do to get it working with out a reboot. That's OK, a Reboot will work for me, Though on general principles I'll try going back to run level 3 and then doing another startx first. <Grin> > > 1b) Can I just copy trutype font files from my windows partition to ~/.fonts > > to enable them for all my apps? > > It will enable them for most of your apps, OpenOffice needs to be set up > separately. You can do this from the same place as where you set up the > printers, oopadmin Yeah, I seam to remember doing something like that with ooffice on my mdk9.0 Only at the time I was too dumb to add them to the xserver. > > 2) Isn't there a global place where root can put these to make them > > accessible to all user accounts? > > As Aaron stated you can place them in > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/". However I chose to place mine under > /usr/share/fonts in their own directory for clarity's sake. > > Can any one think of a reason why this may not be advisable? > > Doug OK so there are TWO different directories I can expect to be searched for fonts on xserver start? If both get searched, then I can't think of a good reason to favor one over the other. So if nobody jumps in with a good reason why not, I'm thinking I saw something in the release notes about /usr/share/fonts... Thanks -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
