Culmus fonts on WeTab (MeeGo)

[Tomer Cohen]

For cases where there is distro package, I'd recommend extracting fonts to
~/fonts/ and restarting the session. I'm using this way in order to install
new fonts with Unicode 6.0 glyphs.

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2011/5/30 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>

> The xset mechanism is obsolete during the last years and have been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 superseded by the concept of client side font.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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