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Monday, June 9th 2003, 7:21pm

New User

I want to edit the fonts in this GUI for Mandrake 9.1. I have some neat .ttf fonts; can I use thesde?
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Monday, June 9th 2003, 7:40pm

RE: New User

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first all, run this command:
chkfontpath


Check if the directory contains the files 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.scale' and if they actually contain the font lines for the X server. If they don't, (make sure ur logged in as root) then..

Run command:
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale

The 'ttmkfdir' command is part of the 'freetype-tools' RPM.

If you've got fonts which are slightly broken
then enter command:
ttmkfdir -c -p > fonts.scale

then enter command:
mkfontdir


Still logged as root..
Run command:
xset fp rehash



and finally.. :)

Run command:
service xfs restart

Now, this is a possability, never said it'd work :wink:
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Tuesday, June 10th 2003, 7:41pm

You can also use (if you use KDE) Kontrolcenter->Systemmanagment->Fonts

Dim

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Friday, June 20th 2003, 6:46am

re. My TTF Font Issue

thanks! it's so rare i find useful, detailed, and various answers to my posts (regarding linux, anyway!)! i wish you all 'ease of use'! lol by the way.. is there a possibility anyone here wants to start a live game of rifts, or AD&D?
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