Re: Fonts in Gnome 2.4

[Johan Groth <jgroth@dsl.pipex.com>]

Hubert Chan wrote:
> > > > > > "Dana" == Dana Olson <dana@mandrakeusers.org> writes:
>
>
> Dana> You can't just put your TTF fonts into ~/.fonts/ ?
>
> lucidatypewriter is not a TTF font.
>
> Dana> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:37, Johan Groth wrote:
> Johan> Hi all, I wonder how I can get the font selector to show all
> Johan> available fonts? I would like to be able to use lucidatypewriter
> Johan> again in Gnome terminal and other applications.
>
> I would guess that this can be solved by telling fontconfig how to find
> bitmap fonts.  The suggested way is to edit /etc/fonts/local.conf, and
> add a "<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>" somewhere between
> "<fontconfig>" and "</fontconfig>".  Or, if you haven't edited
> /etc/fonts/local.conf, you could probably just run "dpkg-reconfigure
> fontconfig" and answer yes to the bitmap font question.  (Assuming
> you're running unstable.)

Hi,
dpkg-reconfigure did the trick. Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Johan

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