How to install Faenza icon theme on Ubuntu 12.10

Do you love the Faenza icons set from Matthieu James? Well, canonical hired Matthie last year to work on a set of icons for Ubuntu, and now you can download the Faenza icon set by adding his ppa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme faience-icon-theme

You can find more info about Matthieu here:
https://launchpad.net/~tiheum/+archive/equinox
http://tiheum.deviantart.com/
http://design.canonical.com/author/matthieu-james/

How to add True Type Fonts to Ubuntu

Ever wanted to add true type fonts to your Ubuntu machine? It's actually fairly simple.

1- Download the .ttf file to your machine
2- Create a new folder for your fonts under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/:

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts

3- Move the .ttf file to the new created folder:

$ mv [ttf_file] /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts

4- Use fc-cache to add the new fonts to the system

$ sudo fc-cache -f -v

More info on fc-cache:

NAME fc-cache - build font information cache files DESCRIPTION fc-cache scans the font directories on the system and builds font information cache files for applications using fontconfig for their font handling.