Now that we're using Gtk2, "normal" font installation is easy even on Unix (put your fonts in ~/.fonts).
Would anyone object if we removed support for the "private-fonts" file? I don't think we have a need to maintain our own font installation/management mechanism anymore.
-mental
Quoth MenTaLguY <mental@...32...> on or about Sun, 02 May 2004 19:29:19 -0400:
Now that we're using Gtk2, "normal" font installation is easy even on Unix (put your fonts in ~/.fonts).
Would anyone object if we removed support for the "private-fonts" file? I don't think we have a need to maintain our own font installation/management mechanism anymore.
OT: That's only for .ttf fonts, right? Once I tried putting cmatrix.psf in ~/.fonts and doing a mkfontdir, but it didn't seem to be recognized (by xterm -fn <foo>).
-t
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:32, twb wrote:
OT: That's only for .ttf fonts, right? Once I tried putting cmatrix.psf in ~/.fonts and doing a mkfontdir, but it didn't seem to be recognized (by xterm -fn <foo>).
~/.fonts only works for newer apps that use xft or pango; xterm is not one of them. xft is actually a very different system from the old X font system.
(also, you don't need to run mkfontdir in ~/.fonts ... it "just works" automagically, although you may need to restart apps to get them to recognize fonts that were installed while they were running)
Postscript fonts should work, though you might need to use the extension .pfa or .pfb for them to work; dunno (try it with .psf first).
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