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Re: I'm almost ready!



On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 22:11, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> Once upon a time Yousef Raffa wrote @ 09 Mar 2003 21:15:27 +0300
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > I successfully logged into Arabeyes.org, updated my profile as requested
> > by Mr. kuru. and downloaded the /translate/gnome CVS files.
> > 
> > Please let me know what sort of files shall I translate.
> > 
> > One more issue needs to be solved on my part is the availability of the
> > ARABIC fonts!!!!! somehow, I don't see my Arabic fonts in my
> > applications, I believe Mr. kuru tried to help me on IRC but we couldn't
> > get it done, and so did Phactorial!! I actually did the same things on
> > same OS (but updated kernel) on a different machine (my laptop) and it
> > worked perfectly!!!!!
> > 
> > This is what I did:
> > 
> > copied the Arabic TTF fonts to the directory of
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> > 
> > ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
> > ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> > 
> > xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> > xset fp rehash
> > 
> > I opened gedit and checked for Arabic fonts but it wasn't there!. So I
> > thought of restarting my xfs server.
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/xfs restart
> > 
> > restarted successfully, opened gedit, and still no Arabic fonts.
> > I thought maybe I had to restart my X session, so I logged out, logged
> > back in and still there were no Arabic fonts available except that I can
> > see them in mozilla when I go to:
> > 
> > Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts
> > 
> > Later on, Phactorial suggested adding the FONTPATH to the
> > /etc/X11/XF86config file. So I added my font path but it didn't get me
> > any further.
> > 
> > anyhow, I checked the Arabeyes Docs section on Arabic Linux HOWTO. I
> > went straight to the section where it says:
> > 
> > To find out what fonts you have installed in your system, do:
> > 
> > xlsfonts | more
> > 
> > The Arabic fonts were there, but I can't use them in gedit for example
> > or any other software! except mozilla of course.
> > 
> > I wish someone can lead me to a simple solution this time and I would
> > like to have this chance to thank all those who tried to help me solve
> > my issue, thank you very much guys, specially kuru, phactorial and
> > whomever I forgotten, as I really forget very frequently ;)
> > 
> > sorry for my wrong writing!.
> > 
> > Liquid Crystal
> > 
> which distro ?
> if redhat 8.9 try adding the path to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

RedHat 8.9?!! Lo0oL, no it is RH 8.0 I'm using and I'm using another
machine with 8.0.94 (didn't try arabic on that yet)

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