on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:54 PM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
> Please excuse my ignorant, but I am a bit confused about this. My
> understanding is that chkfontpath is somekind of utility from Redhat to
> add new fonts in a directory to the X font server.
>
> So I downloaded a set of new fonts in a directory, created font dir
> using mkfontdir. Then I did
> $ chkfontpath -a /new/font/dir/
> and I re-checked with chkfontpath -l to make sure the directory is
> there.
>
> After restarting xfs, I did "xlsfonts |grep -i fontname", where fontname
> is one of the font in the /new/font/dir/, and it just not there.
>
> >From searching, I tried also to add new fonts using
> "xset fp+ /new/font/dir", then "xset fp rehash", and restart xfs. However
> "xlsfonts |grep -i fontname" still can't find the font.
>
> So how does one add a new font in redhat? what is
> chkfontpath really supposed to do?
For TT fonts, the procedure couldn't be simpler:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86-2.html
...if you're doing non-TT fonts, go to http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ and look
for the relevant font howtos.
Cheers.
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