[LUNI] messed up fonts config

[Arun Khan]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007 08:01, Mark Stuart Burge wrote:
>
> Well, it took all of 20 minutes to realize the obvious.
> I just had him bring it over to me. I then booted from the live cd,
> copied the /usr/share/fonts contents from the cd into his filesystem
> and hey presto, it worked.

Good thinking.  LiveCD has saved me a few times.

> Maybe not elegant in terms of command line usage, but nevertheless it
> worked.

At the end of the day that is what matters.   I am sure most of us have 
had to resort to some sort of hack to make some application or the 
other work properly in the distro of our choice.  I recall one 
application needed some special fonts and their path were hard coded in 
the app, different from the font paths of the distro.  Rather than muck 
around with the source code, I simply created a link to the font dir 
and presto the application generated graphs flawlessly :)

-- 
Arun Khan
"They alone live who live for others, rest are more dead than alive." -
Swami Vivekanada