Fonts for the fontconfig system

If you have the fontconfig system used by most new GNOME and KDE applications, the font firectory also has to be listed in a third configuration file, usually under /etc/fonts/. In older systems, the font directory should be added in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, using a format like,

  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/</dir>

Newer systems suggest that any local modifications should be put in /etc/fonts/local.conf, as /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is replaced when fontconfig is updated. If you do not have a /etc/fonts/local.conf, simply make the above change in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Force fontconfig to update its cache, with.

  fc-cache -f

You should also consider uncommenting the section in /etc/fonts/local.conf that says ``Enable sub-pixel rendering'' so as to get better quality output. (The end of the comment line is marked by ``->'', so move that symbol from the end of the section to the end of the line starting ``Enable sub-pixel rendering.'')