Culmus fonts on WeTab (MeeGo)

[Dov Grobgeld]

The xset mechanism is obsolete during the last years and have been
superseded by the concept of client side font. For Gtk and Qt this is
handled by fontconfig . To see the fonts that fontconfig supports do:

  fc-list

To add additional fonts, it is typically enough to copy the font to ~/.fonts
. You can then check with fc-list that you managed to add the fonts.

Another option is to make use of the fact that MeeGo is rpm based and just
grab a rpm file from a different distribution and try to install it.  Since
there are no binary executables in the font rpms, it should be pretty
straightforward unless the directory structure is different on MeeGo.

Please give us a review of  the WeTab and how you manage with Hebrew and
BiDi.

Regards,
Dov

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:52, Yosef Meller <mellerf at netvision.net.il>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> So, I just bought a brand new WeTab, a device based on MeeGo. I bought it
> in Germany, and now I'm trying to get it to speak Hebrew. My first step is
> to install the culmus fonts so I can st least see Hebrew sites, but whatever
> I do, I can't get them recognized.
>
> What I did:
> I untarred the latest package (0.120) into /usr/share/X11/fonts/ and
> symlinked to it in /etx/X11/fontpath.d/ (the place indicated by `xset q`). I
> made sure that it has all permissions and ownerships like the other font
> dirs.
>
> Restarting the device, the font was not recognized. I tried using fc-cache
> on the directory, adding it with xset +fp ...; xset rehash, but the fonts
> don't show up neither in fc-list nor in xlsfonts. I also tried running
> mkfontsdir, which produced a fonts.dir file containing the string '0' and
> nothing more.
>
> How can I debug this? Is there any way I can have a verbose output of what
> directories are searched and why they are dropped? There's nothing in
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Or does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yosef.
>
> PS - I'm doing all those experiments in a virtualbox image of the WeTab, I
> want to get it right before I abuse my actual hardware :)
>
>
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