How to add antialiased font's as a normal user on Debian Woody (but should work
on any other system using XFree86 > 4.1.0) - no root privileges required:

1) copy TrueType fonts to ~/fonts
2) create fonts.dir: mkttfdir ~/fonts
   mkttfdir is included in the fttools package
3) add fonts to XServer's fontpath: xset fp+ ~/fonts
   You have to modify the font path every time you login so I recommend to add
   the above line to your .xinitrc.
4) make fonts available to Xft: echo 'dir "~/fonts"' > ~/.xftconfig
   this assumes that /etc/X11/XftConfig reads ~/.xftconfig, if it doesn't tell
   your system adminitrator to add: 
    includeif "~/.xftconfig"
   to /etc/X11/XftConfig.
5) That's it. If you add more fonts later you have to repeat step 2, delete
   ~/.xftcache and run "xset fp rehash".

 -- Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>  Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:51:16 +0100