Default font installation path

Bernd Steinhauser linux at bernd-steinhauser.de
Sun Oct 5 06:15:09 PDT 2008


Hi,

currently the default path to install fonts is
/usr/lib/X11/fonts
which seems to be kind of odd.
Was it every up for discussion to change this, maybe to
/usr/share/fonts or /usr/share/X11/fonts?

In any case, I doubt, that /usr/lib is the right place for font files.

Regards,
Bernd



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