Re: Gnome-terminal font frustrations

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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 23:20, Michael Fratoni 
> On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:42 pm, John P Verel wrote:
> 
> > Just tried it and does not seem to work:
> >
> > I created ~./fonts, copied both files shown above to it, gunzipped
> > same. File contents are now:
> >
> > total 528
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 john     john         4096 Oct 24 21:37 .
> > drwx------  111 john     john         8192 Oct 24 21:36 ..
> > -r--r--r--    1 john     john        25816 Oct 24 21:37
> > 10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf -r--r--r--    1 john     john       494552 Oct 24
> > 21:34 10x20.pcf
> >
> > When I go to the gnome-terminal General tab, no new fonts show up.
> >
> > What did I do wrong?
> 
> Shot in the dark, as I haven't tried this (and I don't use Gnome), but did 
> you run fc-cache?
> You might try /usr/bin/fc-cache -fv /path/to/fonts (-f force, -v verbose)
All you have to do is restart X.  I tried the same thing (make ~/.fonts
and unzip some x fonts into there).  Perhaps you don't even need to
restart X, but logging off and back on is a good start.

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au>
Too much is just enough.
		-- Mark Twain, on whiskey

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