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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