Hi Rohit I used truetype fonts. I had a bunch from a Windows installation that I copied over. I copied a set of truetype fonts that I had into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory, then I ran: ttmkfdir | sed s/^[0-9]*// > fonts.scale.myfonts /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts xset fp rehash which created the encoding files. (I noticed that sometimes the fonts start to look screwed up again and SuSEconfig has replaced the first line of fonts.scale with a 0. Edit and change back to whatever is the first line of fonts.dir). However, there may be an easier way, which is: In the control panel you can install fonts using the System->Font Installer section. Select the folder that you have the fonts in for the left hand pane, and it will get installed in to the directory in the right hand pane. If you have an LCD screen, use sub-pixel hinting. I think thats all I did. But in the flurry of setting things up, I may have missed something, apologies if so. cheers jalal Rohit wrote:
# The main criticism I would have is that the fonts look terrible until # things have been tweaked.
Hi Jalal,
I took your work from SLE list where you said the above lines. I did my first 8.0 install and I was worried to death as to why my fonts were so screwed up on the dual boot machine where everything seemed fantastic in Windows! Now I am a bit reassured - and that I do not have to go change my monitor.
It is true that the fonts look perfectly screwed up. What do you suggest I should do to get some decent fonts in X11/KDE.
Please let me know. Thanks a lot. If you gave concise, specific hints, I should be able to pick up from there.
Thanks and regards, Rohit