Some fonts on the internet look pretty messed up in Linux because most of the web pages out there were written for Windows users and Window's True Type Fonts (TTF) are not included with Linux, Gnome or KDE! Luckily, Redhat 5 and newer has a Font server that will allow you to use any true type fonts on your Linux PC. Copy whatever fonts you want on an off of a floppy, burned CD, over the network, whatever and do the following:

1. mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
2. cp /path-of-fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
3. cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
4. ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
5. mkfontdir

Where the path-of-fonts is is of course where you copied your TTF files to. After this is done, go ahead and reboot. Unfortunatey, this doesn't work for Caldera or the other releases (go figure), however, I can install xfstt (version xfstt-0.9.99.tar.gz was the new one when I wrote this). It took some hacking because the INSTALL text had a few holes in it. I did as it said but got PATH NOT FOUND errors. I made the paths FIRST and then everything went smoothly. I still did not have fonts! At this point I added to my XF86Config and r.c.local scripts and IT WORKED! After unzipping and untarring the file into a directory......

1. mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype
2. mkdir /var/cache

...then type in the following (as per the INSTALL text file).....

3. make && make install
4. xfstt --sync
5. xfstt &

after that edit your XF86Config.eg file to include the following line where you see the rest of the Font Paths:

FontPath "unix/:7101"

After you do this, edit your rc.local file (usually located at /etc/rc.d/) and add the following two lines to the end of it:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync
/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt &

The directions in the INSTALL text file are pretty straight forward. Follow them and my instructions and you should be just fine! It's so cool! I'm burning a TTF CD right now!!

NOTE: (Sent in by Hooloovoo)

For RH users: In the file /etc/X11/fs/config, there is a "catalogue" section. Add the TrueType font directory to that section. So if your catalogue section was:

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi

You would make it:

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, (your-ttf-dir)

RH6 doesn't always start xfs properly, so you may have to do it yourself. At the console prompt, type "setup" and go to the "System Services" section, and unselect xfs. In the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local, add this line: /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port -1

And the font path in /etc/X11/XF86Config should be unix/:-1. Restart the font server and X and you should have your fonts. You can find your LoseDoze fonts in /mnt/win/windows/fonts.