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Monday, March 10th 2003, 7:52am

KDE TrueType Font installation under Red Hat 8.0

I have Red Hat 8.0 and switched from Gnome to KDE desktop. I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to install Truetype fonts that KDE programs can use. I used a method which seems to work for Gnome apps (the Gimp finds them fine) but can't find out how to do it under KDE.

One person said that the Kcontrol should have a font installer under system, but it's missing from mine (Red Hat crippling of KDE?) I tried downloading kfontinst and compiling, but no such luck under the broken KDE install that Red Hat comes with.

Any ideas before I download Slackware and rip out Red Hat completely?


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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 1:58pm

Hi,
TTF are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf or truetype
Copy the fonts into this directory and restart X (CNTL-ALT-Backspace)
And with a little luck you can select these fonts also in KDE now. It worked for me in SuSE 7.3 a few years ago ;)

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 4:23pm

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Hi,
TTF are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf or truetype
Copy the fonts into this directory and restart X (CNTL-ALT-Backspace)
And with a little luck you can select these fonts also in KDE now. It worked for me in SuSE 7.3 a few years ago ;)

Dim


Well, I found that directory a couple days ago and that's where I put them. Still no joy in Red Hat land. I've ordered Suse8.1 so I should be getting a decent KDE install any day now.

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 8:40pm

Truetype fonts

Damn people.

To install truetype fonts on Redhat that KDE can use, you do the following.

1. Create a .fonts/ directory in your home directory
2. Copy the fonts there

Wait for about 30 sec.

Now, who said Linux was hard

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 9:11pm

Woo, that worked. Thanks whoever you are. I don't think Linux is hard...it would have been nice to have that feature *documented* somewhere though...or at least indexed so it was findable.

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 9:13pm

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I've ordered Suse8.1

Uh uh. Wait a little if you still want use SuSE. 8.2 will be released in April.

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Tuesday, March 18th 2003, 6:03pm

If you want to install (truetype) fonts globally you do it like this (RedHat 8.0.94 Phoebe):
1. Copy the fonts into the folder "/usr/share/fonts"
2. Run the command "fc-cache /usr/share/fonts"
The fonts will then be available to all users. It works on my computer, at least :)
(By the way, Bitstream have made a few truetype fonts ("Vera") available for the public. They look very good with KDE ! )

Of course, copying the fonts to the "~/.fonts" directory is also a fast and easy alternative, but then you will have to repeat the procedure for each user. :?
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