Culmus fonts on WeTab (MeeGo)

[Yosef Meller]

בתאריך 30/05/11 19:42, ציטוט 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 The xset mechanism is obsolete during the last years and have been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 superseded by the concept of client side font.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.

This works, and I found out I can add a systemwide dir to 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf or drop a config file for it in /etc/fonts/conf.d, 
which is what I'd do if I package it.

[snip]

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

Planned, of course. Once I finish with the matchbox-keyboard, I hope 
I'll write something on Linmagazine.


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