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Chapter 4, Related to X

#25 Use Windows and Mac Fonts

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directories so that you’ll copy everything below the CoolGear and default

directories to the destination ~/.icons):

$ cp –R CoolGear ~/.icons

$ cp –R default ~/.icons

The second command overwrites whatever index.theme file you have in your

~/.icons/default directory.

Start up your favorite desktop or window manager (or exit and restart the

desktop or window manager you’re using), and you should see the cursor

theme, formerly designed for Windows, running on your Linux X server-

based desktop!

Not every CursorXP theme converts well. It’s possible for a

misbehaving cursor theme to prevent you from starting up

your window manager or desktop. If you have this problem,

switch to a virtual console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Log in with

your normal username. Edit your ~/.icons/default/index.theme

file, and change the

Inherits parameter to a theme that

works.

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#25

Use Windows and Mac Fonts Hack #25

Spruce up your desktop with your favorite fonts from other operating

systems.

A major problem that has been leveled at the Linux desktop is a lack of

good-quality fonts. This is because font creation is a time-consuming and

expensive process that requires a lot of skill. Those who know how to do it

are generally not inclined to give their work away for free (a nice contrast to

the thousands of open source programmers who do give their code away).

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