Fonts

[Avraham Hanadari]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:21:15 +0300
> Avraham Hanadari <rufus at hanadari.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>So far I've spent a couple of hours painfully keying in the sudo command 
>>for each font and then requesting the reconfigure for the batch.
> 
> 
> If all your fonts are in one directory, you can do something like
> 
> sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
> 
> You can check that this will do what you expect it to do by issuing
> 
> ls *.ttf
> 
> in the directory from which you are doing the copy.
> 
> If you really *must* do it the GUI way <grin> , you can start nautilus with
> 
> gksudo nautilus
> 
> (it will probably complain about session authentication, but still start
> OK)
> 
> then do the drag-and-drop thing. If you do that, be *very* careful
> though... and close nautilus at the earliest opportunity. It's just too
> easy to break your system if you forget that nautilus is running as root.
> 
> I would do the batch copy as above, personally, from the command line.
> 
> Peter
> 
I did the Nautilus thing, and pasted the lot into truetype. That seemed 
much more efficient than endless coding. Thanks.

Avraham