Adding fonts to Feisty

[tyler.roach at bluebottle.com]

You need to restart Gnome (if you have not done so) before they will show up in your fonts
folder.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:25:29PM -0400, Ed Smits wrote:
> I'm trying to add some fonts, have tried both methods found by googling:
> 
> 1) Copy the fonts to the fonts folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and
> run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'.
> 
> 2) put them in ~/.fonts and run fc-cache
> 
> I now have the fonts in 3 places - /root/.fonts,
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ as well as my own ~.fonts, have run both
> fontconfig as well as fc-cache (this as both sudo as well as me),
> still can't see the fonts in the Fonts folder, but they are now
> available in a Fonts dropdown box, however what is the correct way to
> do this for a system wide use?
> 
> 
> ED
> 
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