SMC/Fonts: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:39, 16 June 2008

Download any of the above fonts
To setup the fonts just copy it to ~/.fonts directory or open nautilus file manager and go to location (press CTRL+L and type location) fonts:/// and drag-n-drop font files to this location.
If you want it to be available to all users copy it to /usr/share/fonts.
You can check whether the fonts are installed correctly by running the command fc-list (eg. fc-list |grep Rachana ).
Restart the running applications so that the new fonts are available to them.
All aplications which depend on font config will be able to use the newly installed fonts.

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 [[Image:Anjali.png]] [http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net/fonts/AnjaliOldLipi.ttf '''AnjaliOldLipi''']<br/>
 [[Image:Dyuthi.png]] [http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/Dyuthi3.ttf '''Dyuthi''']
+==Installation==
+* Download any of the above fonts
+* To setup the fonts just copy it to ~/.fonts directory or open nautilus file manager and go to location (press CTRL+L and type location) fonts:/// and drag-n-drop font files to this location.
+* If you want it to be available to all users copy it to /usr/share/fonts.
+* You can check whether the fonts are installed correctly by running the command fc-list (eg. fc-list |grep Rachana ).
+* Restart the running applications so that the new fonts are available to them.
+* All aplications which depend on font config will be able to use the newly installed fonts.