• From: Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
  • Registered: 2009-05-20
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Topic: [SOLVED]Help with installing and using fonts?

Installed the font "Fontin Small Caps" (from this thread: link ) and it looks nice,
but I seem to be having a problem getting Open Box itself to use it. When I go into Obconf and try to set something such as my
Active Window Title to one of the Fontin fonts, it doesn't change; if I change to any of the other fonts available they do change.
I unpacked the fonts and then moved them into /usr/share/fonts/truetype, and then even made them their own folder in /truetype and
still OB will not use them for window titles etc. Did I make an error somehow in where I placed them?

The fonts DO apply for everything else going through Preferences>User Interface Settings, just like I said not the window titles....

Last edited by SmashedGlass (2010-04-14 22:52:41)

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Re: [SOLVED]Help with installing and using fonts?

I don't know why this is necessary, but after changing the font to Fontin, you need to restart Openbox.

openbox --restart
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  • From: Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
  • Registered: 2009-05-20
  • Posts: 238

Re: [SOLVED]Help with installing and using fonts?

My bad. But thanks for the help anyhow.

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