On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:29, Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:20, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > The newer mozillas, e.g. Sid's mozilla-snapshot, have 'default' > > fonts which I rather like (of course, 'there is no accounting for > > tastes'). In the Preferences menu, the serif font is just called > > 'serif', the monospace font is called 'monospace'. > > > > I found that (at least on my system) these are in reality all > > Bitstream Vera fonts. My first question is: is this something > > determined by Mozilla, or is it specific to my system because I > > somehow (unwittingly) set it up this way? Anyway, I rather like > > these fonts and would like to use them also for printing. > > Turns out that Mozilla and a bunch of other GNOME/GTK2 apps use fonts > that are configured via some fontconfig. (I don't know much about it.) > fc-list reports fonts that are available through fontconfig. > Ensure that the path where you installed the fonts are listed in > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf > Also, KDE apps take fonts from ~/.kde/share/fonts > > > I wish someone could elaborate on the mystery of fonts. This is what I found, maybe it helps. See "Note:" on Page 4 of http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/pdf/rhl-relnotes-x86-en-9.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ | I keep on working for the same reason a hen keeps on laying eggs.| ------------------------------------------------------------------
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