Re: adding a font
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:12:28 +0000
"Aneurin Price" <aneurin.price@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Paul Cartwright
> <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
> > I know this has been talked about before, but a google search and a
> > search of my archives turned up nil..
> > I saw this nice web site that has a free font that is supposed to
> > save 20% of the normal ink useage, so I downloaded it.
> > http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html
> >
> > 2 questions
> > 1. the other ttf fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. they are
> > all in folders, but the folders have multiple files. this is only 1
> > file. Do I need to create a folder for it?
> >
> > 2. I can't find/remember the command to restart the font server,
> > other than restarting X, is there one?
> >
>
> Do you know you're actually using a font server? I ask because I
> haven't seen one in nearly a decade.
>
> Have you tried simply copying the ttf file into $(HOME)/.fonts/? This
> has been sufficient for me for at least a couple of years, but it's
> possible that there's some DE magic happening behind the scenes
> (works with both Gnome and KDE at least,
...and also in Xfce...
> but I don't know if either
> is required). I don't believe I've had to restart anything other than
> the application in which I want to use the new font.
>
> -Nye
>
>
--
Nyizsa.
http://nyizsa.uni.cc
Reply to: