Hi Everyone.

I am currently running slackware 10.2 with Fluxbox as my windows manager. How do I go about installing Truetype fonts on this system? I would like to be able to use the fonts in my FONTS folder on my NTFS partition (Windows XP).

Also, does Slackware 10.2 support *.fon fonts? Ive noticed that many of the fonts in the FONTS folder of Windows XP (I am using international language support) contain fonts with the extension *.fon

Does linux support this? What steps do I have to go thru to successfully install TTF fonts on Slackware Linux 10.2 with fluxbox?

TrueType fonts have the .ttf extension. Easiest thing to do for Fluxbox is issue as root "mkdir /usr/share/fonts" and copy them from your Windoze partition to there. Then run "fc-cache" as root. You might need the full path; if so issue "whereis fc-cache" and you should get it. Or when you reboot, fc-cache will run unless you've commented it in /etc/rc.d/rc.M yourself.

For info on what .fon fonts are, use Google. IIRC those are Windoze bitmap fonts.

Maybe this helps. There's no difference if you use Fluxbox, KDE or XFCE so these instructions apply to you.

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this thread here might help you to..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=462034

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The fonts are made available to the window manager from X; you install them like this:

log in as root (or su or whatever)
cd directory-where-TTF-files-are
# create the target directory if it doesn't already exist
mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
# copy all the TTF files, changing the name to lower case as you go
for file in *.[Tt][Tt][Ff]
do
cp ${file} /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/`echo ${file} | tr [A-Z]
[a-z]`
done
# go to the directory you just copied all that stuff to
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
# if you got them from winders, change the mode of the files
chmod 644 *
# create the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files you need
mkfontdir
mkfontscale
# you should have files fonts.dir and fonts.scale, look at 'em if
you want

Now you need to add the font path to /etc/X11/xorg.conf; in the section "Files," add this line:

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

That section of my xorg.conf file looks like this:

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/myfonts/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

You need to exit from X (if it's running) and execute

fc-cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

That's it.

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will this advise work with the *.fon fonts that are in the windows XP font folder? Those are bitmap fonts something like that.

Perhaps this will help:

Installing TrueType Fonts on GNU/Linux

Unknown, Cap'n... but, you've got enough bitmap fonts in the distribution to drown a cat -- add the TTF's and be a happy camper.

how do i convert all the file names to lowercase? is there a special command i can use?

I think you'll find that 'just happens' when you copy them. I never did it on purpose, and all of mine are .ttf -- but then, I'm a simple Redneck whom God loves and blesses -- He fixes many of my mistakes for me.

maybe that rename program at linuxpackages can help, not being a wiseguy....i just never used it.

Easiest way is while you're copying from wherever to, say, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF:

cd <directory where .TTF files are>
# copy all the TTF files, changing the name to lower case as you go
for file in *.[Tt][Tt][Ff]
do
cp ${file} /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/`echo ${file} | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
done

In the above you're copying FONTFILE.TTF to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fontfile.ttf (the "sideways pipe" -- `echo ${file} | tr [A-Z] [a-z]` -- does that). See the man page for the tr utility.

And besides, out of 277 fonts in my WinXP Pro, there is only one .TTF
and it didn't come with Windows anyway. The remaining 276 are all .fon or .ttf.