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[Jan Elders <jrme@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 November 2005 20:52, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> If I simply place fonts in a subdirectory under /etc/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts,
> and run SuSEconfig, the fonts are not loaded when the KDM is loaded.  If I
> add the new path to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, they will load.  The problem
> with modifying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf is that it has a
> corresponding /etc/X11/xorg.conf.md5 which means YaST wants to control the
> file.
>
> When I copy the fonts to ~/.fonts, and add the following to the
> ~/.fonts.conf: <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>   <dir>~/.fonts/wri/4.1/truetype</dir>
>   <dir>~/.fonts/wri/4.1/Type1</dir>
> </fontconfig>
>
> X still fails to load the fonts.  Putting the fonts in
> /usr/share/fonts/wri/4.1/truetype
> /usr/share/fonts/wri/4.1/Type1
> likewise fails.  I would rather not edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Is there
> an alternative?
With SuSE 9.3 I loaded additional fonts in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and ran SuSEconfig -module fonts.
I "think" that is the folder you have to use.
Worked perfect for me.
Cheers,
-- 
Jan Elders
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