Re: [ALUG] Just installed Debian

On Sunday 18 April 2004 16:07, Richard Lewis wrote:

Dear ALUG,

I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.

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3. The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be

quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?

Thanks in advance, Richard

I copied all the TTF fonts from a Windows installation into usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/truetype, from where they seem to be available to all applications that need them. I'm not sure how legal that is, but since I paid for Windows I won't lose any sleep over it. Replacing KDE standards with Arial etc makes the system look a whole lot nicer; Apple and Microsoft did a good job.

-- GT