Re: Gnome-terminal font frustrations

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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:20, James McArthur <james@pcorp.com.au> wrote: 
> For Gnome2 and fontconfig and Xft2, you really only need to copy the
> fonts into one of the font directories (ie ~/.fonts) and run fc-cache.

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 07:20, Michael Fratoni
<mfratoni@tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Friday 25 October 2002 12:43 am, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 23:20, Michael Fratoni
> > > 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.
> 
> Neither restarting X or logging out should be required if you run 
> fc-cache.
And software should run bug free, the point was it seemed fc-cache
didn't work so there are other things to try.  Whether or not what
should have happened really did happen was not the issue :)
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au>
There is no proverb that is not true.
		-- Cervantes

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