User manual NOVELL LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 17-03-2009

[. . . ] SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 March 17, 2009 www. novell. com Administration Guide Administration Guide All content is copyright © 2006- 2009 Novell, Inc. Legal Notice This manual is protected under Novell intellectual property rights. By reproducing, duplicating or distributing this manual you explicitly agree to conform to the terms and conditions of this license agreement. This manual may be freely reproduced, duplicated and distributed either as such or as part of a bundled package in electronic and/or printed format, provided however that the following conditions are fulfilled: That this copyright notice and the names of authors and contributors appear clearly and distinctively on all reproduced, duplicated and distributed copies. [. . . ] To check if the fonts were installed correctly and are available by way of the X11 core font system, use the command xlsfonts to list all available fonts. Therefore, Unicode fonts should be preferred (font names ending with iso10646-1 in xlsfonts output). All available Unicode fonts can be listed with xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1. Nearly all Unicode fonts available in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop contain at least the glyphs needed for European languages (formerly encoded as iso-8859-*). 14. 2. 2 Xft From the outset, the programmers of Xft made sure that scalable fonts including antialiasing are well supported. If Xft is used, the fonts are rendered by the application using the fonts, not by the X server as in the X11 core font system. In this way, the respective application has access to the actual font files and full control of how the glyphs are rendered. This constitutes the basis for the correct display of text in a number of 168 Administration Guide languages. Direct access to the font files is very useful for embedding fonts for printing to make sure that the printout looks the same as the screen output. In SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, the two desktop environments (KDE and GNOME), Mozilla and many other applications already use Xft by default. Xft is already used by more applications than the old X11 core font system. Xft uses the fontconfig library for finding fonts and influencing how they are rendered. The properties of fontconfig are controlled by the global configuration file /etc/ fonts/fonts. conf. Special configurations should be added to /etc/fonts/ local. conf and the user-specific configuration file ~/. fonts. conf. Each of these fontconfig configuration files must begin with <?xml version="1. 0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts. dtd"> <fontconfig> and end with </fontconfig> To add directories to search for fonts, append lines such as the following: <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/</dir> However, this is usually not necessary. By default, the user-specific directory ~/. fonts is already entered in /etc/fonts/fonts. conf. Accordingly, all you need to do to install additional fonts is to copy them to ~/. fonts. For example, enter <match target="font"> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> to disable antialiasing for all fonts or <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>Luxi Mono</string> <string>Luxi Sans</string> </test> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> The X Window System 169 </edit> </match> to disable antialiasing for specific fonts. By default, most applications use the font names sans-serif (or the equivalent sans), serif, or monospace. These are not real fonts but only aliases that are resolved to a suitable font, depending on the language setting. Users can easily add rules to ~/. fonts. conf to resolve these aliases to their favorite fonts: <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>FreeSans</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>FreeSerif</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>FreeMono</family> </prefer> </alias> Because nearly all applications use these aliases by default, this affects almost the entire system. Thus, you can easily use your favorite fonts almost everywhere without having to modify the font settings in the individual applications. Use the command fc-list to find out which fonts are installed and available for use. [. . . ] Either commit the local copy to the server or remove the local file and run the update again. If you commit a locally modified file and the file was changed in the same line and committed, you might get a conflict, indicated with C. In this case, look at the conflict marks (">>" and "<<") in the file and decide between the two versions. As this can be a rather unpleasant job, you might decide to abandon your changes, delete the local file, and enter cvs up to retrieve the current version from the server. 26. 4 Introduction to rsync rsync is useful when large amounts of data need to be transmitted regularly while not changing too much. [. . . ]