[WBEL-users] Fonts
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:12:13 -0500
My experience with Whitebox is that it includes the same fonts as redhat
9 and the BlueCurve theme; however, what I do on all linux distros that
don't include ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10 is this.
Go to this location on the gnome website:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
then download either the .gz or .bz2 file and untar it with the command:
tar -xvzf xxxx.tar.gz
or
tar -xvjf xxxx.tar.bz2
then move the directory named ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10 to
/usr/share/fonts like this:
mv ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10 /usr/share/fonts/
then run the command:
fc-cache
Now you should be able to assign the fonts:
Bitstream Vera Sans
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Bitstream Vera Serif
Those fonts are (in my opinion) much better. I use Sans for just about
everything...and Sans Mono for my Terminal Font. You can pick the fonts
you want to use (in gnome for different things) by going to:
Menu - Preferences - Font
I also assign the Bitstream Vera fonts inside mozilla or FireFox as my
default fonts.
- Johnny Hughes
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 11:39, scty Library wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Could anyone tell me why the fonts don't look so good
> on a fresh install?
>
> Thanks
>
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