Friday, November 25, 2011

Adding New TrueType fonts


  1. Make a new directory, say /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MyTTFdir
  2. Copy your .ttf font files into there
  3. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MyTTFdir
  4. ttmkfdir to make the fonts.scale file
  5. mkfontdir to make the fonts.dir file (needed for TTF fonts?)
  6. chkfontpath --add=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MyTTFdir (or manually by editing /etc/X11/fs/config)
  7. service xfs restart (or /etc/init.d/xfs restart)
  8. chkfontpath --list to see if MyTTFdir was added
  9. xfontsel to browse/view available fonts

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