Re: [LUG] OK so I've installed msttcorefonts...

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri,
Sep 27, 2002 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Tony Atkin
> wrote:
> > > head -1 fonts.scale > fonts.dir
> >
> > :)
> >
> > are you root?
>
> This was the problem, in essence.
>
> sudo head -1 fonts.scale > fonts.dir
>
> .. also caused a problem, since the head was done as
> root, but the
> redirect as the user.
>
> I advised an sudo -s session, but I wonder if there
> is a good
> "standard form" for this sort of thing? I can't get
> {} or () to be
> useful, in context.
>
> Somethig that did then come up was Mozilla. When
> installing, we were
> asked if we wanted Trutype fonts for mozilla.
> Assuming they were not
> there, I said no.
>
> So, dpkg-reconfigure mozilla was done, but that
> didn't bring up
> anything.
>
> Anyone know how to be asked that question again?

I managed to sort Mozilla out by editing
/etc/mozilla/prefs.js and adding another prefs line
for truetype fonts pointing to the new fonts
directory.  This having previously sorted out kde.  It
seems my installation of Deb3 is running Xft font
server to handle truetype fonts so I edited
/etc/X11/XftConfig to add a line to tell it the
location of the new fonts directory then restarted X
and kde was happy to show me all my truetype fonts.

Its easy when you're sober :)

Tony

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