15 Feb 2013

Installing bitmap fonts on Fedora 17/18

For the second time in a month I have had to go searching to find how to install bitmap fonts on Fedora 17/18. This is covered in the Fedora documentation for older versions of Fedora though appears to have been dropped at some point. To install bitmap fonts do the following:

1. Create a directory under /usr/share/fonts/ e.g. /usr/share/fonts/local
2. Copy font files to this directory and run mkfontdir and mkfontscale
3. Create a symlink /etc/X11/fontpath.d/local -> /usr/share/fonts/local