Operation Manual

Installing and Conguring

Fonts for the Graphical User

Interface

The installation of additional fonts in openSUSE® is very easy. Simply copy the fonts

to any directory located in the X11 font path (see Section 12.1, “X11 Core Fonts”

(page 168)). To the enable use of the fonts, the installation directory should be a subdi-

rectory of the directories congured in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (see Section 12.2,

“Xft” (page 169)) or included into this le with /etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs

.conf.

The following is an excerpt from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. This le is the standard

conguration le that should be appropriate for most congurations. It also denes the

included directory /etc/fonts/conf.d. In this directory, all les or symbolic

links starting with a two digit number are loaded by fontcong. For a more detailed

explanation of this functionality, have a look at /etc/fonts/conf.d/README.

<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>

/etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf is automatically generated to pull in fonts

that ship with (mostly third party) applications like OpenOfce.org, Java or Adobe

Acrobat Reader. A typical entry would look like the following:

<dir>/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font</dir>

<dir>/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font/PFM</dir>

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