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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [suse-kde] Xplanet
From:       Thomas Wedehase <tw_mailbox () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-01-27 17:36:05
Message-ID: 200501271836.18323.tw_mailbox () yahoo ! com
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Just to let you know, I never saw your system. I am not doing that.
I just needed the name of the font-file (which you gave me), because in school 
it worked somehow, but there weren't any fonts in the folder of xplanet.

Now i got everything i needed :)

Thomas

Am Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:56 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
> Thomas,
>
> I'm glad you worked it out.
>
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 13:51, Thomas Wedehase wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Okay, I found the problem. You won't believe it, but the font made
> > the problems. Xplanet could not find the font.
> > I took it out and it works just fine.
> > Could you give me the name of the file, cause I really like your
> > font.
>
> I'm a little confused about what you want. I'm using LucidaSansRegular,
> as you can see from my xplanet-local script. But you've never seen a
> rendering of my desktop image (I hope! -- Are you snooping around my
> machine somehow? If so, you have skills! Marketable sckills, if you
> catch my drift...)
>
>
> Actually, I think I see now what's up. XPlanet will only use fonts from
> its own fonts directory: "/usr/share/xplanet/fonts/".
>
> On my system, that's:
>
> % ll /usr/share/xplanet/fonts/
> total 1544
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 175016 2004-04-05 19:47 FreeMonoBold.ttf
> -r--r--r--  2 root root 698236 2004-07-07 16:18 LucidaSansRegular
> -r--r--r--  2 root root 698236 2004-07-07 16:18 LucidaSansRegular.ttf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     92 2004-04-05 19:47 README
>
>
> What's noteworthy here are the dates. Apparently I added the LucidaSans
> files (which are the same file--i.e., they're hard links). I guess I
> must have done that because I didn't want to use the FreeMonoBold font
> supplied with XPlanet.
>
> What's more, I apparently appropriated that font from my Java
> installation, 'cause that's the only other place that file exists on my
> system!
>
> So it appears whatever font you want to use, you have to copy it
> to /usr/share/xplanet/fonts. I believe it must be a TrueType font, but
> I'm not 100% sure about that (doubtless the XPlanet documentation will
> make that clear).
>
> Fonts.com sels a suite of six Lucida Sans fonts for the low, low price
> of $118 (US)! Linotype sells a Lucida Sans Regular for $29.
>
> Here's a free one: <http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-l3.html>.
> You'll have to search. It's about two thirds of the way down.
>
>
> (Lest there be any confusion, font names cannot be copyrighted or
> trademarked--only the actual font designs themselves get any kind of
> proprietary protection. Thus there can be any number of fonts out
> there, both free and commercial, all named Lucida something-or-other.)
>
> > Thanks again for all your help
> > I appreciate it
>
> No problemo! I please to aim.
>
> > Thomas
>
> Randall Schulz

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Nuernberg, Germany
www.thomaswedehase.com
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