Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:03:59 +0100 Siard wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available > > to all users. > In that case, there is a third way: > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts /usr/local/share/fonts" > But the usual way to install fonts system wide beyond the p

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Siard
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: > Reco: > > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way: > > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts ~/.fonts" > > > Hackish you've-been-warned way: > > Add "~/MyFonts" stanza into /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > > Second way is hackish *and* wrong because Keith Packard himself > > tells you that from the

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:44:03 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available to all > > users. > > Make symlink from ~/MyFonts to /usr/local/share/fonts Ta, that should remain through updates. Cheers, Ron. -- Some people are worried a

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Felix Miata
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI composed on 2016-02-12 16:05 (UTC-0300): > On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: >> > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. >> > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run >> >root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Ron
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: > > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way:

Re: Fonts query

2016-02-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:37:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? De