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Bug 84912 - Update freefonts/sharefonts instructions for xfs
Update freefonts/sharefonts instructions for xfs
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gimp-web
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: www.gimp.org
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: The GIMP web bugs mail alias
The GIMP web bugs mail alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-11 18:17 UTC by Akkana Peck
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description Akkana Peck 2002-06-11 18:17:14 UTC
The freefonts/sharefonts packages are great, but the README files are old
and don't apply to modern systems that run the font server, xfs.

Could the "Installation for X11" sections of the README files be updated?

I'd suggest replacing step 3 with something like this:

3. Give the following commands to make X11 accept the new fonts:
  3a. Older systems which do not use xfs:
      xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont
      xset fp rehash

   3b. Systems using xfs (font path is something like unix/:7100):
      /etc/init.d/xfs stop
      touch fonts.dir in the directory where you extracted the new fonts
      /etc/init.d/xfs start

Also: the README says to untar the archive in /usr/X11/lib/fonts.  Redhat
systems, at least, don't have a directory /usr/X11.  They do have
/usr/X11R6 (but there's no fonts subdir there), and there's
/usr/lib/X11/fonts, but I usually add new fonts in /usr/share/fonts (which
is normally already there).  Might that be a better place for the README to
tell people to extract the freefonts and sharefonts?
(Modify my suggested 3b touch command accordingly, to point to wherever the
README recommends that the fonts be extracted.)
Comment 1 Akkana Peck 2002-06-11 19:32:12 UTC
Whoops!  I forgot an important step, adding the new directories to the
font path.  Here's how my suggested revised instructions should look:
modify as appropriate if you prefer to recommend a directory other
than /usr/share/fonts.  I think this is fairly general and should
cover most distros

Installation for X11
--------------------

1. Change directory to /usr/share/fonts (or any existing font
directory, such as /usr/lib/X11/fonts).

2. tar xzvf /path/to/freefont-0.10.tar.gz

3. Make X accept the new fonts:

  3a. On older systems which do not use xfs:
      xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont
      xset fp rehash

  3b. On newer systems using xfs (font path is something like unix/:7100):
      /etc/init.d/xfs stop
      touch /usr/share/fonts/freefont/fonts.dir
      chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/freefont
        (systems without chkfontpath, add the path manually to the
"catalogue" list in /etc/X11/fs/config)
      /etc/init.d/xfs start

4. The fonts are now available under X11.
Check them out by running a program like "gfontsel" or "xfontsel".

5. Cleanup ... (as before)
Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2003-07-08 00:31:02 UTC
Do we really want to touch these archives? I'd rather see them vanish.
The quality of fonts is miserable, the copyright is unclear. The only
point that speaks for keeping the freefonts package around is that we
use the fonts as default values for our scripts. Perhaps we should
change these defaults and finally bury these font packages.
Comment 3 Alan Horkan 2003-07-23 18:37:36 UTC
Changes at the request of Dave Neary on the developer mailing list.  
I am changing many of the bugzilla reports that have not specified a target
milestone to Future milestone.  Hope that is acceptable.  
Comment 4 Raphaël Quinet 2003-08-20 08:35:06 UTC
The new web site does not provide a section about how to install fonts.
It may be added later, but it is likely to be different from what we
have in the old site.  I don't think that we should update this
seldom-used part of the old site if it is going to be replaced by the
end of this month.
Comment 5 Dave Neary 2004-01-04 11:46:52 UTC
Changing all www.gimp.org bugs from gimp product to the gimp-web product,
including old closed/fixed bugs, and reassigning.
Comment 6 Dave Neary 2004-01-04 14:19:08 UTC
re-resolving old bugs
Comment 7 Dave Neary 2004-01-04 14:56:33 UTC
Ooops - missed a few old resolved bugs
Comment 8 Dave Neary 2004-01-04 14:57:36 UTC
And missed the assignee.
Comment 9 Dave Neary 2004-01-04 14:58:58 UTC
Am I finally rid of these bugs?