[arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Tue Apr 28 15:27:49 EDT 2009


David C. Rankin wrote:
> 	(3) So that you will have font support in X/KDE, as root, change directories
> to /usr/share/fonts and for each font subdirectory there run:
> 
> 	mkfontscale <dirname>
> 	mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ <dirname>
> 
> (Normal font directories include: 100dpi  75dpi  TTF  Type1  URW  artwiz-fonts
>  cyrillic  encodings  local  misc  truetype  util) Note: you may not have all
> of these.
> 
> 	You can do it in one shot with this (pasted in the command line):
> 
> for in $(ls); do \
> mkfontscale $i; \
> mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ $i; \
> done

Just for the record, I don't think I've ever had to do step 3 on any of 
my Arch boxes.

DR


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