gnome fonts

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by Chad, Apr 26, 2007.

  1. Chad

    Chad New Member

    Regarding the fonts in gnome article found here:
    http://howtoforge.org/sharp_fonts_gnome

    I'm getting nothing but squares (see attached)

    chad@Secured:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom$ ls -lh
    total 1.3M
    -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 611K 2007-04-26 12:15 tahomabd.ttf
    -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 661K 2007-04-26 12:15 tahoma.ttf

    chad@Secured:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom$ sudo /usr/bin/defoma-font -v register-all /etc/defoma/hints/custom.hints
    /usr/bin/defoma-font -v register-all /etc/defoma/hints/custom.hints
    W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom/tahomabd.ttf: already registered in category truetype.
    W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom/tahoma.ttf: already registered in category truetype.

    chad@Secured:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
    Cleaning up font configuration of fontconfig...
    Cleaning up category cid..
    Cleaning up category truetype..
    Cleaning up category type1..
    Updating font configuration of fontconfig...
    Cleaning up category cid..
    Cleaning up category truetype..
    Cleaning up category type1..
    Updating category type1..
    Updating category truetype..
    Updating category cid..
    Regenerating fonts cache... done.


    I did everything as shown and rebooted the system. Why is it not working for me?
     

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  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Maybe you need to reconfigure your locales:
    Code:
    dpkg-reconfigure locales
    What's the output of
    Code:
    env
    on the shell?
     

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