for installing fonts copy all fonts to /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType (if dir does not exist create it) in the font directory do ttmkfdir > fonts.scale mkfontdir xset +fp `pwd` (or add /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType to XF86Config) if using RH then do a chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType Installing pango-fonts package ------------------------------ Pango-fonts-0.3 package contains bdf fonts for Indic. These fonts were derived from other truetype fonts. You can download it from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/extras/pango-fonts-0.3.tar.gz To install , untar into say /usr/share/fonts add the font path (eg /usr/share/fonts/default/pango-fonts-0.3/indic ) xset +fp path or in FontPath section in XF86Config if uisng Redhat then do a /sbin/chkfontpath --add urpath & restart xfs Well, on RH this is not supposed to be done, you should leave the FontPath line as it originally is, and add our path to /etc/X11/fs/config either manually or automatically by using chkfontpath utility # chkfontpath --add urpath # chkfontpath --remove urpath ( to remove it )