Slackware 64 13.1 KDE Installing system fonts issue?

arubin · 05-31-2010, 03:33 AM

I have a fresh installation of 13.1
One of the first things I do with a new installation is install my collection of fonts as system fonts. The System Settings GUI does not seem to work with this. I select all the fonts, give, the root password but they will not install.

I got round this by logging on to kde as root. Something which I do not like to do.

rkelsen · 05-31-2010, 04:24 AM

Installing fonts on Slackware is a simple process. You shouldn't need to resort to using a GUI frontend to do it.

Step 1. 'su' to root
Step 2. Copy fonts into /usr/share/fonts/TTF (or Type1 or OTF, etc)
Step 3. cd /usr/share/fonts/TTF (or Type1, etc)
Step 4. mkfontscale .
Step 5. mkfontdir .
Step 6. fc-cache -f

That's it. You should now be able to see all of your fonts in the font bar of your word processor.