Gurmukhi Font

[Ishna]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience installing third-party fonts on Linux?

I'm running Gentoo Linux and Fluxbox, and I would like to install a Gurmukhi font but I'm a little unsure where to start.

*waves her hammer at her xorg.conf* Is this a good place to start?

Thanks,

Ishna.

[ms514]

Sat Sri Akal:

Gentoo eh? I am using a Mandriva based distribution called PCLinuxOS (awesome...everything and I mean everything about this distribution is awesome...stable, KDE based for full usability and fast with low memory consumption) and have used a Slackware based OS called Vector Linux (fast as anything...can compete toe to toe with Gentoo and does not require compiling programs for install). In both distributions, all I had to do was go to the following directory:

/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

and paste the TTF fonts that are available on the internet to this directory. After a reboot, I was good to go (can also do the same with all the fonts in your Windows/fonts directory to get access to a massive amount of fonts). Everything except the Sikhnet Hukamnama works excellent.

Lemme know if it works. XOrg is supposed to contain some parameters for video card, monitor, mouse and keyboard display. DO NOT mess with the fonts settings in this file unless you know what you are doing...you can cause your computer to never boot into a graphical user interface (aka. Fluxbox). So be very very careful of that.

P.S. I am a Linux <banned word filter activated> and do not have any skills at it, but I like what I use compared to Windows...which I haven't had to boot into for many weeks thanks to KDE. That and I am not worrying about viruses and spyware every minute.

I'll shut up now...

[Ishna]

ms514 ji,

Thanks for your info, the part about dumping the ttfs to that directory is very interesting and definately a good place to start gathering more knowledge about this.

I love Gentoo for portage, but I hear a few other distros are getting on that bandwagon too, like Debian which I'm thinking about switching over to pretty soon because Gentoo is too hard for me to maintain and I'm just not that interested in having a top-notch OS all of the time.

I wonder why the Sikhnet Hukamnama doesn't work for you. I'll let you know if I find anything out about that.

Regarding xorg.conf, I built most of mine from an example file, and with a bit of help from a friend in New Zealand got it up and running before I installed my precious, precious fluxbox *petpets*.

The entire Gentoo install is done from console, so I'm actually pretty comfortable there and have broken my GUI a couple of times before. Whoops.

KDE is an alright desktop environment, I like it a lot more than Gnome, but I prefer something like fluxbox because it doesn't come with all the bells and whistles and sometimes I like the challenge of finding things to taylor it to my needs.

I've been using Linux by itself for a couple of years now. I can't stand Windows, and I'm not prepared to pay for my own copy, so using Linux I figure is a lot more honourable than the alternative.

I'm interested in your slackware OS Vector Linux, I think I'll have to look that one up.

But yeah, thanks again!