[mythtv-users] WEIRD mythtv setup problem

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Aug 8 18:22:52 UTC 2008


On 08/04/2008 12:58 PM, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 08/04/2008 12:30 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> On 08/04/2008 12:09 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>>>  On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>> mythfrontend -O Theme=blue
>>>>> mythtv-setup -O Theme=blue
>>>>>
>>>>> or just install the MS core web fonts, and even G.A.N.T will work.
>>>>  Do we seriously have a default theme for MythTV that requires the MS
>>>>  core web fonts to be installed?
>>> G.A.N.T uses Arial (artist's choice, and all, so we shouldn't change
>>> it).  If anything, we should change the default theme that's used.
>> Turns out, though, that blue also uses Arial.  And, since blue and
>> G.A.N.T are the only 2 (UI) themes provided with mythtv***, it seems
>> that MythTV requires MS core web fonts or a proper font-substitution
>> configuration (using, for example, fontconfig--which, BTW, has always
>> worked for me).
> How do you set up the substitutions? The CentOS box, of course, had
> fontconfig installed and aware of at least some of the fonts (without
> fonts yumex would not run, complained about fontconfig not finding
> fonts, now it does).
>   

http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html

See example (or read the rest to find out how it works).

Mike


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