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I have a fairly large (1000 +) collection of fonts that I finally got around to (trying to) install today. I've done this with several other distros and it's always worked before.
cp /mnt/windows/[blah]/fonts/* /usr/X11R[blah]/fonts/myne
cd /usr/X11[blah]/myne
mkfontdir > fonts.scale
Then I edit xorg.conf and add the "fonts/myne" path under the correct section. Usually after these steps, all my fonts are working properly. Today, that didn't happen.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.
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Ah, thanks. Never thought to RTFM.
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fontconfig uses it's own fontpaths declared by <dir> tags,
check in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf for the default paths and if you want to add your own do it in /etc/fonts/local.conf ,
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fontconfig uses it's own fontpaths declared by <dir> tags,
check in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf for the default paths and if you want to add your own do it in /etc/fonts/local.conf ,
yeah, don't edit fonts.conf 8)
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I used the script from the above forum post. Worked very nicely, but fonts still weren't working. I realized I had never checked the permissions of the fonts, so I did. Big "DOH" time on that one. All my fonts were set to only be rw by root. :oops: A quick chmod and restart of X and everything was working just fine.
Thanks for the help. Someone with access to the wiki might want to mention that the fonts need 644 or higher permissions. 8)
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