On Monday 07 July 2003 11:43, Peter Evans wrote:
Warning: gormless newbie again! In brief: can I please have an idjit-level explanation of how to install new fonts?
Jason writes (in the thread "8.2 slower than Windows 2000 on 450MHz
PIII?") apropos of my konsole display irritations:
I had this problem until I changed the font. In Konsole, Settings->Font->Custom. Works fine for me with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Don't forget to click on Settings->Save Settings to make the change permanent.
I don't think that's the key to fixing my irritation, but anyway a spot of Googling took me to some pages that made this font look very interesting. So I got it, within a bz2 file that I've opened up on my capacious hard drive. Righty-ho, what do I do with the fonts therein? (I need to know, because right now I only have a single Japanese font installed, and desperately want a "gosikku" and "maru-gosikku" alternatives.) Earlier, I installed Trebuchet MS and Georgia using what I thought was common sense and a spot of enterprise; they're kind-of installed, but they look terrible. (Not aliased, perhaps?) I infer that I did it wrongly and should instead have followed some kosher procedure. The 8.2 Personal user guide suggests that this is done via KDE Control Center | System Administration | Font Installer; but all I see here is a list of already-installed fonts; there's no obvious way to tell it to look at the content of such-and-such a directory.
I think there will be if you put the .ttf files in the appropriate directory first, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ in my case. They can be owned root:root and perms 444. For all I know more restrictive permissions may work, but try that. Installing 8.2, I was offered (somewhere in the default install) the opportunity to have SuSE fetch and set up true type fonts, and all has been sweetness and light in Fontsville ever since I accepted this kindness. The default Konsole font on my 2 installs is fine - this not said to annoy you, but for the archives.
The explanation toward the end of "Integrating Additional (True Type) Fonts" in the administration manual very reasonably assumes that I know roughly what I'm doing; unfortunately I don't, so the part about installation is over my head. (The stuff about character sets is fine.) Meanwhile, http://kitschparade.ath.cx/vera.php says "Newer distributions [of Linux] can use fontconfig to install Bitstream Vera", but when I look at man:fontconfig I've only the haziest idea of what it's on about.
Urgh. Maybe I should have settled for "Lindows" or that other OS. . . .
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