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Those who try to develop their own monitor descriptions should be very familiar with
the documentation in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/
(the package
xorg-x11-doc
must be installed).
Manual specification of modelines is rarely required today. If you are using a modern
multisync monitor, the allowed frequencies and optimal resolutions can, as a rule, be
read directly from the monitor by the X server via DDC, as described in the SaX2
configuration section. If this is not possible for some reason, use one of the VESA
modes included in the X server. This works with almost all graphics card and monitor
combinations.
26.2 Installing and Configuring Fonts
The installation of additional fonts in SUSE Linux Enterprise is very easy. Simply copy
the fonts to any directory located in the X11 font path (see
Section 26.2.1, “X11 Core
Fonts” (page 489)). To enable use of the fonts, the installation directory should be a
subdirectory of the directories configured in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
(see Sec-
tion 26.2.2, “Xft” (page 490)) or be included into this file with
/etc/fonts/
suse-font-dirs.conf
.
The following is an excerpt from
/etc/fonts/font.conf
including
/etc/
fonts/suse-fonts-dirs.conf
:
<!-- Font directory list -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>/opt/kde3/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts/kde-override</dir>
<include ignore_missing="yes">suse-font-dirs.conf</include>
/etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf
is automatically generated to pull in fonts
that ship with (mostly third party) applications like OpenOffice.org, Java or Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Some typical entries of
/etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf
would look like the following:
<dir>/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update10/jre/lib/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Resource/Font</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Resource/Font/PFM</dir>
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