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roygbiv

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Registered: 2011-05-18

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Installing / using fonts as non-root user

I want to use the nice looking Tamsyn programming font for my terminals on the universitys Red Hat clients (I assume the procedure is more or less the same on all linux systems), but obviously I don't have root privileges there . By using it I mean to put something like this in an .Xresources file and make it work:

XTerm.font:    xft:Tamsyn:size=10

The font directory downloaded from the Tamsyn website contains the following files:

-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  18K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn6x11b.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 3.3K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn6x11b.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  18K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn6x11r.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 3.3K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn6x11r.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  19K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x12b.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 3.6K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x12b.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  19K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x12r.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 3.6K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x12r.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  20K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x14b.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.1K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x14b.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  21K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x14r.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.1K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn7x14r.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  21K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x15b.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.3K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x15b.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  21K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x15r.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.3K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x15r.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  23K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x17b.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.8K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x17b.psf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht  23K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x17r.pcf
-rw------- 1 wictorht wictorht 4.8K 2011-02-09 09:09 Tamsyn8x17r.psf

How can I possibly install or enable this font for my user without root privileges? Any answer possibly leading me somewhere is great, as I don't have much experience with installing fonts manually (I can thank pacman for that).

Thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44382

roygbiv

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 204

Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

My university is running Red Hat Enterprise. I'm using this AUR package on my Arch Linux.

Last edited by roygbiv (2011-08-17 22:09:12)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

My university is running Red Hat Enterprice. I'm using this AUR package on my Arch Linux.

So you want to know how to do that on Red Hat?

roygbiv

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 204

Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

Yes, assuming there is a general linux method to do so. Maybe not suited here I guess. I'm kinda stuck and there are many skillful people in this forum so I thought why not..

Last edited by roygbiv (2011-08-17 22:14:04)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

The way it works with truetype fonts is you throw them into ~/.fonts and then run fc-cache. But this isn't a truetype font, so no idea if the same trick will work. But can't hurt to try. After running fc-cache, you should have a cache file in ~/.fontconfig

fsckd

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Re: Installing / using fonts as non-root user

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