Hi!
I running Slackware 12.0 with Dropline Gnome on my Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.
My problem is in order that Devanagari fonts (Hindi language) are not properly rendered in slackware unless I follow the instructions given at this site
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10...onts_in_linux/

In the previous versions of slackware, I had to do this only once. But now I have to do it each time I log on. I have to log on in text mode, give the following command as su
where start_freetype is a script I wrote, the contents of which are -
My question is why do I have to do this each time I log on. Is there a way out?

It's probably because the "make install" is running fc-cache with a /usr/X11R6 prefix to your fonts directory. Slackware doesn't use that anymore. I suggest you change your --prefix to usr and make sure your font's are winding up where they are supposed to be in /usr with the rest of your system fonts.

Then they will automatically get picked up.