[MPlayer-users] subfont.ttf for all users
Georgi Georgiev
chutz at gg3.net
Mon Dec 30 07:12:02 CET 2002
Florin Andrei wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Feature suggestion:
> According to the documentation, there are two ways to specify the
> location of a TrueType font file:
> - using -font /path/to/arial.ttf
> - creating a symlink from arial.ttf to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
> Neither of these methods works system-wide (i mean for all users without
> making changes for each user).
>
> In order to make this work system-wide, is it possible to make mplayer
> search for subfont.ttf first in one of the global directories first,
> like for example the ones specified by the --confdir or --datadir
> ./configure options?
>
> This way, a TrueType font could be installed once for all users. No need
> for symlinking to each home directory, or to force all users to use some
> command-line switch.
>
$ echo font=/path/to/subfont.ttf >> /etc/mplayer.conf
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