From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 09:16:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51ACA16A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A2A43D46 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:16:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 1867 invoked by uid 85); 24 Aug 2005 09:16:29 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.318085 secs); 24 Aug 2005 09:16:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 09:16:28 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: Eric Murphy Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:16:12 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <5994703.1124787902990.JavaMail.root@elwamui-sweet.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <20050824105450.460d092e.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050824105450.460d092e.albi@scii.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508240116.18033.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fonts Question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:16:33 -0000 > Eric Murphy wrote: > > When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this > > > > say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is > > called XCELI.TTF > > > > So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the > > file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it.. > > > > This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts > > and can you use windows fonts? > You need to run fc-config and restart your x-windows after adding a font. It should be available after restart. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------