David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> (3) So that you will have font support in X/KDE, as root, change >> directories >> to /usr/share/fonts and for each font subdirectory there run: >> >> mkfontscale <dirname> >> mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ <dirname> >> >> (Normal font directories include: 100dpi 75dpi TTF Type1 URW >> artwiz-fonts >> cyrillic encodings local misc truetype util) Note: you may not >> have all >> of these. >> >> You can do it in one shot with this (pasted in the command line): >> >> for in $(ls); do \ >> mkfontscale $i; \ >> mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ $i; \ >> done > > Just for the record, I don't think I've ever had to do step 3 on any of > my Arch boxes. > > DR > DR, as usual, "You are correct, sir." But after having gone through the steps at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Font_Configuration, it was just as easy to "kill two birds with one stone" and include that at step 3 so the font directories would be properly configured for X-startup. But your right, I should probably included an (**Optional) notice for step 3 since X will start anyway without it ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
