Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

[csj <csj@zapo.net>]

At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
> 

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> For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup "fontconfig" which Xft2
> uses to find fonts.  I'll get to that in a minute.

I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available to GNOME2
and KDE3.  I've always been puzzled tho why my GTK1 apps seems to
have fewer fonts available.

Your detailed tips have me wondering if there's really an
official(tm) Debian way of managing fonts, something relatively
easy like "dpkg-reconfigure".

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