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Mati
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 Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject: More fonts for firefox and shells? |
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Hello,
im searching for a way to have more fonts to choose in for example firefox or my shell. Im new to gentoo and would it be very nice if someone could help me.thanks  |
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RedSquirrel
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| Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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This might help:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Fonts
Personally, I tend to stick to dejavu for most things and I use terminus for xterms and on the console. |
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Mati
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| Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,
but have you done everything on this page? It seems very much fonts and things to be installed |
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jcTux
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jcTux
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| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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With eselect fontconfig you can enable/disable the fonts that you like or not. |
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RedSquirrel
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| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Mati wrote: | Thanks,
but have you done everything on this page? It seems very much fonts and things to be installed |
Well, I have not read through the article recently so I just skimmed over it now.
I see the last emerge command installs the xorg-x11 meta-package. As it says in the article, you can skip anything you consider to be unnecessary. That might be something to drop.
The upstream requirements for newer versions of x11-base/xorg-x11 require the installation of a fairly large number of fonts. The Gentoo X Server Guide formerly suggested installing x11-base/xorg-x11, but that was changed to x11-base/xorg-server somewhat recently. The latter does not install all those fonts.
The Gentoo installation I'm running has been around for some time now and I have had x11-base/xorg-x11 installed on it since its earliest days. I don't mind having a bunch of fonts installed. You may not need them, however. 
Edit: I don't install corefonts nor the artwiz fonts. |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Have a look in /use/portage/media-fonts/, or if you have eix installed:
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You can also drop fonts you copy from other OSes or download from the 'net into ~/.fonts/
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