Installing And Configuring Fonts - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Administration Manual

WARNING
Unless you have in-depth knowledge of monitor and graphics card functions,
do not change the modelines, because this could severely damage your monitor.
Those who try to develop their own monitor descriptions should be very familiar with
the documentation in /usr/share/X11/doc. Install the package xorg-x11-doc
to find PDFs and HTML pages.
Manual specification of modelines is rarely required today. If you are using a modern
multisync monitor, the allowed frequencies and optimal resolutions can, as a rule, be
read directly from the monitor by the X server via DDC, as described in the SaX2
configuration section. If this is not possible for some reason, use one of the VESA
modes included in the X server. This will work with most graphics card and monitor
combinations.

14.2 Installing and Configuring Fonts

The installation of additional fonts in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is very easy.
Simply copy the fonts to any directory located in the X11 font path (see
"X11 Core Fonts"
should be a subdirectory of the directories configured in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
(see Section 14.2.2, "Xft"
suse-font-dirs.conf.
The following is an excerpt from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. This file is the standard
configuration file that should be appropriate for most configurations. It also defines the
included directory /etc/fonts/conf.d. In this directory, all files or symbolic
links starting with a two digit number are loaded by fontconfig. For a more detailed
explanation of this functionality, have a look at /etc/fonts/conf.d/README.
<!-- Font directory list -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>/opt/kde3/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>
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(page 167)). To the enable use of the fonts, the installation directory
(page 168)) or included into this file with /etc/fonts/
Section 14.2.1,