Re: Protecting a custom font
Re: Protecting a custom font
- Subject: Re: Protecting a custom font
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:56:28 -0800
You should place fonts for just X11 in ~/.fonts, and you should place fonts for OS X (and also X11) in ~/Library/Fonts. If you want to share them with other users, place them in /Library/Fonts.
That should take care of it for you.
On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Doug Carter <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize in advance if this is FAQ, but I Googled and searched the
> XQuartz docs without an answer.
>
> I use a custom mono-spaced bitmap programming font called "proggy"
> (http://proggyfonts.com/). Not only is the font available for X, there
> are also TrueType and Mac versions, which provides consistent use,
> regardless of environment.
>
> To use the font, I've added it to /opt/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ and update
> the fonts.alias file, which works perfectly. The problem is, any time I
> update to a new XQuartz release, this directory gets updated and I need
> to add it back to the fonts.alias file and run mkfontdir.
>
> Is there an easy (or preferred) way to protect this font configuration
> across XQuartz updates?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Doug
>
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