Just to let you know, I never saw your system. I am not doing that. I just needed the name of the font-file (which you gave me), because in school it worked somehow, but there weren't any fonts in the folder of xplanet. Now i got everything i needed :) Thomas Am Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:56 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Thomas,
I'm glad you worked it out.
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 13:51, Thomas Wedehase wrote:
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Okay, I found the problem. You won't believe it, but the font made the problems. Xplanet could not find the font. I took it out and it works just fine. Could you give me the name of the file, cause I really like your font.
I'm a little confused about what you want. I'm using LucidaSansRegular, as you can see from my xplanet-local script. But you've never seen a rendering of my desktop image (I hope! -- Are you snooping around my machine somehow? If so, you have skills! Marketable sckills, if you catch my drift...)
Actually, I think I see now what's up. XPlanet will only use fonts from its own fonts directory: "/usr/share/xplanet/fonts/".
On my system, that's:
% ll /usr/share/xplanet/fonts/ total 1544 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175016 2004-04-05 19:47 FreeMonoBold.ttf -r--r--r-- 2 root root 698236 2004-07-07 16:18 LucidaSansRegular -r--r--r-- 2 root root 698236 2004-07-07 16:18 LucidaSansRegular.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 2004-04-05 19:47 README
What's noteworthy here are the dates. Apparently I added the LucidaSans files (which are the same file--i.e., they're hard links). I guess I must have done that because I didn't want to use the FreeMonoBold font supplied with XPlanet.
What's more, I apparently appropriated that font from my Java installation, 'cause that's the only other place that file exists on my system!
So it appears whatever font you want to use, you have to copy it to /usr/share/xplanet/fonts. I believe it must be a TrueType font, but I'm not 100% sure about that (doubtless the XPlanet documentation will make that clear).
Fonts.com sels a suite of six Lucida Sans fonts for the low, low price of $118 (US)! Linotype sells a Lucida Sans Regular for $29.
Here's a free one: http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-l3.html. You'll have to search. It's about two thirds of the way down.
(Lest there be any confusion, font names cannot be copyrighted or trademarked--only the actual font designs themselves get any kind of proprietary protection. Thus there can be any number of fonts out there, both free and commercial, all named Lucida something-or-other.)
Thanks again for all your help I appreciate it
No problemo! I please to aim.
Thomas
Randall Schulz
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