[luau] Installing Fonts in Red Hat 8.0

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Linux has really evolved!  Actually, once you create the fonts directory 
(make sure that its permission is at least r--r--r--), you can further 
use a Red Hat utility tool called chkfontpath to finish the rest.  What 
can I say--I am speechless.

When APIC is finalized, and someone figures a way to do direct audio CD 
copying, I just don't see how Microsoft Windows can compete against 
Linux in the consumer desktops arena.


Ray Strode wrote:

> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>
>> While we are at it (i.e., discussion about fonts), I seem to vaguely 
>> remember that there was a font installation tool in Red Hat 7.3 
>> (through KDE, I believe).  But now I don't seem to be able to find it 
>> in 8.0. Does anyone know how to do that in Red Hat 8.0?
>
>
> I think you should be able to copy the fonts to /usr/share/fonts or to 
> ~/.fonts
> Any fontconfig enabled programs will have access to them then. 
> For programs not using fontconfig yet, you will have to install 
> freetype-utils,
> create a directory somewhere, put your fonts in that directory, run 
> ttmkfdir > fonts.dir, add the relevant line to your XFree86 config 
> file, and then restart X (or xset +fp the directory).  I don't know of 
> any graphical utilities for installing fonts, but I wouldn't be 
> surprised if there is one.
>
> --Ray
>
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