Dear jayanthan,
You dont need root access to install fonts. Keep your fonts in .fonts
directory and follow the steps:

mkdir .fonts
cp mlkr0ntt.ttf ~/.fonts

ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale

cd ~/.fonts

head -1 fonts.scale > fonts.dir
tail +2 fonts.scale | tac >> fonts.dir
cp fonts.dir fonts.scale
xset +fp ~/.fonts

To verify that the font is installed properly,

xset q
xfontsel

If SuSe 9.0 is using XFS for font rendering, then just keeping the
fonts in .font directory is sufficient (a restart of X is required, i
guess). But some applications may not be able to use XFS to render the
characters.

BTW, Did you run xfontsel to check the fonts? Are you able to see the
malayalam fonts in xfontsel?

thanks,
Paul

--- In varamozhi@yahoogroups.com, "A. V. Jayanthan" <avjayan@g...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The font display problem is with all fonts. I have heard that in
Suse,
> one need not install fonts as the below link describes. One can just
> keep fonts in ~/.fonts directory and it will automatically be
taken. I
> read Kerala kaumudi that way. But for some strange reason, I can't
> read Mathrubhumi and Manorama like that. Even if I have to install
> fonts as given in the below link, I will need root access, which I
> don't have for the office pc I'm working on. How to get around
this? I
> use Suse 9.0 with ICEWM desktop.
>
> Jayanthan.
>
> On 6/23/05, m_k_paul <m_k_paul@y...> wrote:
> > dear jayanthan,
> > varamozhi works perfectly fine on a linux machine. I suspect
that the
> > fonts are not installed properly. Some basic instructions for
> > installing fonts in linux are available at
> >
http://www.chintha.com/maunicode-malayalam-font-in
stallation-linux.html
> >
> > Also please post your distro and desktop env(gnome? kde?) details
> > here.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> > --- In varamozhi@yahoogroups.com, Cibu <cibucj@g...> wrote:
> > > Dear Jayanthan,
> > >
> > > Does this happen with all fonts or with Chowara only. I don't
know
> > why
> > > Perl/Tk is not displaying Malayalam fonts. I will get a proper
linux
> > setup
> > > in this week. I will test this in it. Did anybody else try
linux
> > > installation of varamozhi? Any success?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Cibu