Re: adding a font

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/18/08 11:12, Aneurin Price 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

But they won't be visible to anyone else who uses the computer.

> there's some DE magic happening behind the scenes (works with both Gnome and
> KDE at least, 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.

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