If you download the spec file, and look through it, it all makes sense how to add other fonts, provided you have a medium through which to send the files from one computer to the other. The script downloads files, puts them in a directory, and packages them for installation. Just add something to that where you cp them into the proper directory before it packages it all up, and you're set to go.

B.

XP, In your xp-box, go to: c:\windows\fonts. Burn the fonts file to a CD, then in slack, copy them to /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF. Edit: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, with the actual PATH to your personal-font stash, i.e: if you have them stored in your home dir in a file named TTFonts, add the line: <dir>/home/yourname/TTFonts</dir> . Adjust this to your actual PATH. Then go to control center-appearance-fonts and choose your fonts.

BC

try /usr/bin/X11/fc-cache -fv /where/your/fonts/are

I tried gnome-font-properties and it worked but everytime I restart my box I have to change the fonts again and again. Is there any command to save the gnome fonts configuration?

why not just make you puter run the command every time it starts? I know Slackware runs fc-cache on boot every time.

B.

I have all my ttf fonts copied over from my Windows XP partition, and I have run fc-cache -f on the directory and generated the fonts.cache-1 file. In addition I added the directory to the XF86Config file as a FontPath entry, and made that change to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. The fonts work, but don't seem to be recognized by GTK2. In other words they don't appear in gnome-font-properties.

Edit: Nevermind, I moved the fonts to ~/.fonts and adjusted the FontPath entry in the XF86Config file, and for some reason it seemed to work. It's a pretty dumb solution if you ask me, but oh well, it works.

What do you mean? I don't want to change the fonts everytime I start my box.
XPediTioN

What do you mean by having to "change the fonts"?

Sorry I think I understand, is your problem that gnome does not retain your font preferences for window titles, desktop, terminal, etc.? If so it could be a permissions thing and might be solved by doing

# chmod -R 644 ~/.gnome

so that it can write to the preferences files, but I could easily be wrong.

HTH

B.

I mean that everytime I restart my box the fonts change. I change them to something different but they change back when I restart. Got it?

I'm having the same problem as the starter of this thread... I've recompiled freetype with the bytecode interpreter on and installed those Vera Bitstream fonts, and everything still looks like crap, even with antialiasing turned off. What should I do now?

okay. first of all windows xp fonts is in c:/winnt/Fonts

What you have to do is to mount your c: partition of your windows xp in Linux.
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXX /mnt/hd (example only).

After that copy the folder
cp -r /mnt/hd/winnt/fonts /somewhere/uwant/it/tobe

and then follow the steps I mentioned earlier. that is by editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

You may have to remove some of the fonts which doesn't work in linux. Maybe it is just the files. But it is okay to just leave it as it is.

also, you may have to ( I did, not sure what is the effects if u don't) add the path in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file too.

all the best.

I copied all the fonts from Windows XP to the directory you told but I haven't changed anything in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf because I don't know what. What do I have to do?

No, I don't. Your fonts for what? KDE? Gnome? GTK 1.2 apps? GTK 2.0 apps?

Fonts for gnome-font-properties