Fonts Question...

Beecher Rintoul akbeech at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 09:16:33 GMT 2005


> Eric Murphy <eam404 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this
> >
> > say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is
> > called XCELI.TTF
> >
> > So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the
> > file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it..
> >
> > This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts
> > and can you use windows fonts?
>
You need to run fc-config and restart your x-windows after adding a font. It 
should be available after restart.

Beech
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