[MPlayer-users] subfont.ttf for all users

[Georgi Georgiev]

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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