Newbie: fonts &c.
Chris Hodgins
christopher.hodgins at gmail.com
Mon May 16 13:04:17 PDT 2005
On 5/16/05, Moy Easwaran <moy at tiresias.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> freetype is already being loaded.
>
> pkg_add -r webfonts gives me a file not found error, and when I look
> for it manually (in a browser) there doesn't appear to be a package.
> I added arkpandora fonts but that made no difference.
>
> Also, my concern is more than just web fonts: I want to clean up the
> icons and menus and stuff as well (see the vim screenshots, for
> instance).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Moy
Get yourself the bitstream fonts, they are really very nice. You can
get the webfonts and bitstream fonts by doing this:
# cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/bitstream-vera/
# make install clean
# cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts/
# make install clean
I think you also want to make sure you have in your X config file:
Load "freetype" # put this in the module section
and as suggested above put these in your files section:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
Then restart the X server and you should be able to setup your fonts
in the settings panel of gnome somewhere (I dont use gnome) to the
bitstream fonts. They are very clean.
Chris
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