Help with linux fonts please.

[jlemieux]

I have been trying for two days to get the fonts changed on my redhat 7.2 system. I took some TTFs from my desktop and attempted to do what the HOWTO's told me but I still couldn't do it. Could someone please post the easiest way to get decent fonts, especially netscape. TIA.

 

[marat]

Not sure about paths on your distro, but should be close :

0. su root

1. Copy *.TTF files from windows to /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

2. cd /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

2. mkttfdir

3. cp fonts.dir fonts.scale

4. /etc/init.d/xfs restart

 

[jlemieux]

Thanks, I'll give this a shot tomorrow.

 

[KiwiSurfer]

The XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO might be able to help you. It's fairly straight-foward and easy to understand. It also has some hints on making fonts look nicer under XFree86 aswell.

- James