Installing And Configuring Fonts - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 08-05-2008 Installation 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/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/ (the package xorg-x11-doc
must be installed).
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 almost all graphics card and
monitor combinations.

26.2 Installing and Configuring Fonts

The installation of additional fonts in SUSE Linux Enterprise is very easy. Simply copy
the fonts to any directory located in the X11 font path (see
Fonts"
configured in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (see
included into this file with /etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf.
The following is an excerpt from /etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf. This
file is included into the configuration, because it is linked into the directory /etc/
fonts/conf.d which is included by /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. 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>
<dir>~/.fonts/kde-override</dir>
<include ignore_missing="yes">suse-font-dirs.conf</include>
488 Installation and Administration
(page 489)). The installation directory should be a subdirectory of the directories
Section 26.2.1, "X11 Core
Section 26.2.2, "Xft" (page 490)) or