ProFont on Debian Etch

ProFont is my favorite monospaced programming font. You can see it in this shot here: For my own future reference, here’s how you get ProFont working in Debian Etch: cd tmp wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=ProFontWinTweaked.zip wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=profont-x11.tar.gz unzip ProFontWinTweaked.zip tar xzvf profont-x11.tar.gz sudo cp ProFontWinTweaked/ProFontWindows.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts sudo cp profont-x11/* /usr/local/share/fonts sudo fc-cache -fv sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/share/fonts Finally, add the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Files section FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" then restart X.