Becomin linux user ... the journey ... almost final, part....

[Scott Talbot]

Ian Malone wrote:

> . m a r c o s   a u g u s t o wrote:
>
> > [ ] flash
>
> If you mean the flash player it's available from Macromedia,
> <http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/>
> (but not for 64bit Linux yet)
>
> > [ ] FONTS - almost forget... how to bring my thousand of fonts to fc4?
>
> I assume they're .ttf.  The easiest way is to copy them to
> the ~/.fonts directory (although they'll only be available
> for your account).  You're supposed to be able to add them
> by opening the Nautilus at the address fonts:/// (or is it
> font:/// ?) and dragging them in, but I never got it to work.
> <http://linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts> looks interesting, but
> I haven't tried it.
>
    It's in the release notes. Just copy them to /usr/share/fonts/ and 
run fc-cache /usr/share/fonts.
I used the dragging them into fonts:/// once.  Never was sure if it 
added them for all users though.

Scott