-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 July 2003 05:43, Peter Evans wrote:
Warning: gormless newbie again! In brief: can I please have an idjit-level explanation of how to install new fonts?
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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; <snip>
Since you have a tarball of the font(s), the first thing you might want to do is create a new directory in your /home (I call mine...fonts). Next, cut and paste the tarball into that new directory, then right-click on it and choose 'extract here' (just go with the defaults). You said it's a bz2, correct? If so, you may have to right-click a second time (meaning you may now see a file with just .tar and no .tar.bz2)...no big deal. Now you should have either a new directory inside the one you just made or just a bunch of fonts inside the one you just made. Open Control Center->system administration->font installer , click the 'administration mode' button, root password should be asked from you. Then click the 'add' button, you'll highlight whichever of the font directories you're adding the new fonts to, and just show it where it/they are (navigate back to /home/peter/fonts and IIRR, you can then hold the 'ctrl' key down and highlight all the fonts for that particular font directory, then click 'okay' or whatever it is). It may take a little fooling around with, I'm going from memory here (even though I'm sitting at my machine now and looking at the install font in control center...too lazy to actually click through the steps, heh), but it's really simple. How did you miss this when you went to it the first time? Are you sure you weren't in YaST2 Control Center? You should be in the 'regular' Control Center, not YaST's. If you're scared to click some buttons to try something, you won't get far in Linux and you'll never see all the really neat stuff there is and how much power and control you have with this OS.
Urgh. Maybe I should have settled for "Lindows" or that other OS. . . .
Maybe, but if any of them are 'new' to you, you'd have just as much trouble learning, unless you just dig in and start 'doing' things. Click buttons, look and see what's around in there, what does 'this' do, hmmm...wonder what'll happen if I click that....etc, etc. I know at least 30 people who've had computers for anywhere between 1 and 3 years, and *still* don't know anything but how to read email and surf the web. Ask 'em to look into a news group, and I get that 'dumb cow' look. Tell 'em to right-click on the two miniature monitors in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and choose 'disconnect' to disconnect from the 'net...no need to unplug the system. (These two instances are *real*...I get them all the time from my customers. I always hear "Wow! I didn't know that!", and I tell 'em it's because if they're afraid of digging in, they *never* know anything about it.) John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/CWowH5oDXyLKXKQRAocJAJ0d8uY/XFkSgnB5hBOQEQZadFY3UQCgtdgs x+OXMnTQsHvRt1NrhjECU7M= =4pOK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----