Font installation

[Mats Holmberg]

squareyes wrote:

> Mats Holmberg wrote:
>
>> Could someone please tell me how to install fonts in Gnome. I've 
>> tried to install them by dragging into an open nautilus window 
>> (fonts:/// location), but that will do absolutely nothing. Even if 
>> I'm running nautilus through sudo it still does nothing.
>>
>> Ubuntu 5.10 clean install, Amd64
>>
>> Thank for any help,
>> Mats
>>
> Hi Mats,
> you could try copying true type fonts to the fonts folder 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
> and run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'.
> hope this helps.
> Take Care
> Winton
>
Thanks alot for the replys (applies to Frank Merenda as well). Somehow 
either I've messed up or ubuntu plays tricks on me. My fonts had been 
copied to my ~/.fonts folder at some point, and now they seem to work. I 
tried KDE's font installer at one point but it's just too damn slow (I 
waited for about 15 minutes to copy 130 MB of fonts.. around 750 font 
files... then got fed up with it and cancelled the process). Anyway, now 
that I read your replys I looked in ~/.fonts (didn't know about it 
before) and saw my files were there, restarted and everything seems to 
work. I'm not in the mood to figure this one out, got other things on my 
list atm, but I really don't know what happened, where and why.

Cheers,
Mats