Fonts and Red Hat 8

[chadm1967]

Hi all,

I'm running Red Hat 8 and have a quick question about fonts. I remembered with 7.3, you would have to copy the ttf's to a directory, run a couple of commands, reboot, and then all was well. So, I decided to do the same with Red Hat 8. After rebooting, the fonts are available with Mozilla and Galeon but that's it. They are not available with any other apps. Does anyone have any ideas? I remember reading a review (can't remember where or who the author was) that stated that you could just copy the fonts to a directory and reboot and then they worked with everything in release 8. Does anyone remember reading the article and/or which directory to put the fonts in?

Thanks!

[JimH]

The new font config is /etc/fonts/font.conf. You can add more font directories here if you wish, but it is not necessary. Just create a directory in /usr/share/fonts and run: fc-cache

you can also put your fonts in ~/.fonts for a specific user and not systemwide changes. Also note the font name MUST BE LOWERCASE or they will not be read.

Jim H

[babbing]

Hmm, why don't i have a manual entry on fc-cache?

[JimH]

Using fc-cache is actually optional. It is not necessary to use it. However, I get the impression that sometime in the future it maybe required.

Jim H

[trommaster]

maybe it runs it when you start up/reload x, so if you run it then you make the fonts avaliable...?

[JimH]

No you have to manually run it.

$ fc-cache --help
usage: fc-cache [-fvV?] [--force] [--verbose] [--version] [--help] [dirs]
Build font information caches in [dirs]
(all directories in font configuration by default).

-f, --force scan directories with apparently valid caches
-v, --verbose display status information while busy
-V, --version display font config version and exit
-?, --help display this help and exit

Jim H