Adding Fonts

[Bastian Doetsch]

Am Samstag, den 16.10.2004, 14:04 -0700 schrieb Darren Critchley:
> Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> 
> >>I have attempted to add a couple of TTF fonts that I need for an app 
> >>using the method above, however, it does not work.
> >>Looking at it, it is clearly a permissions issue, all of the files in 
> >>fonts:/// are owned by root and have the little lock symbol on them, so 
> >>when I try to drag and drop a new font from the desktop, it won't let me.
> >>
> >>Is there another method of doing this?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >try "sudo -H nautilus" and then ctrl-l and enter "fonts:///" . Worked
> >for me...
> >  
> >
> I'm afraid that did not do it either!
> In the end, I had to copy them to my /home/usrname/.fonts directory and 
> then run fc-cache
> 
> I did find a how to for Gnome in general at 
> http://linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts but, the tool ttmkfdir does not seem 
> to exist on Ubuntu.
> 
> Have you installed fonts recently with the method you show above? Just 
> wondering if any recent changes would make it not work on my Laptop.
> 
> Darren
> 
> 

I just did it today with the aforementioned method. Did you logout and
login again?


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