1 |
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host |
2 |
Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram |
3 |
|
4 |
I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day. |
5 |
|
6 |
I'm not getting anywhere. |
7 |
|
8 |
for example: |
9 |
/usr/share/fonts shows all these: |
10 |
|
11 |
100dpi corefonts encodings inconsolata-hellenic misc util |
12 |
75dpi cyrillic inconsolata liberation-fonts urw-fonts |
13 |
|
14 |
Probably going at this ass backwards but it seems just about none of |
15 |
thes are accessabel to an xterm |
16 |
|
17 |
xlsfonts shows many `misc fixed' fonts that can be loaded into xterm. |
18 |
|
19 |
But I have not found how to load any of the others. |
20 |
|
21 |
For example: fc-list shows a whole different list of fonts. |
22 |
I tried several and none of those were loadable into xterm. |
23 |
|
24 |
Trying by there names inside the directories above I have found none |
25 |
are recognized by xterm |
26 |
|
27 |
Looking at the fonts.dir files .. at least most of those names look |
28 |
familiar in the format I'm used to such as this: |
29 |
|
30 |
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1 |
31 |
That one is found with xlsfonts. |
32 |
|
33 |
Something like this from inconsolata fonts.dir file: |
34 |
|
35 |
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 |
36 |
|
37 |
xterm -fn -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 |
38 |
xterm: cannot load font '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1' |
39 |
xterm: cannot load font '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1' |
40 |
|
41 |
trying the other kind of names there: |
42 |
|
43 |
xterm -fn Inconsolata-Regular.ttf |
44 |
xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf' |
45 |
xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf' |
46 |
|
47 |
Leave it at that for the moment... |
48 |
|
49 |
googling for hours on this I find xterm can understand a different |
50 |
switch `xterm -fa bla-bla' |
51 |
|
52 |
However, xterm as installed from portage does not understand that |
53 |
switch at all. |
54 |
|
55 |
Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to have that ability |
56 |
compiled in, so I wondered if our xterm is compiled for that option? |
57 |
|
58 |
And further if anyone knows what that compile option might be? |
59 |
|
60 |
Can anyone offer some guidance here... |
61 |
|
62 |
How to get a few of those fonts to be loadable into an xterm? |