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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu]
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:54:48
Message-Id: CAKpSnpJEmhCSr8p6DgUQJGrFK36sveDsfei=4D1NvLHrwE6hOg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu] by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On 2016-12-19 02:39, Jorge Almeida wrote:
3 >
4
5 >
6 > Mine is much larger:
7 >
8 > [5+0]~$ ls /usr/share/fonts/misc | wc -l
9 > 413
10 > [6+0]~$ equery -Cq b /usr/share/fonts/misc
11 > media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.3-r1
12 > media-fonts/font-arabic-misc-1.0.3
13 > media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.3
14 > media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc-1.0.3
15 > media-fonts/font-dec-misc-1.0.3
16 > media-fonts/font-isas-misc-1.0.3
17 > media-fonts/font-jis-misc-1.0.3
18 > media-fonts/font-micro-misc-1.0.3
19 > media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2
20 > media-fonts/font-mutt-misc-1.0.3
21 > media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc-1.1.2
22 > media-fonts/font-sony-misc-1.0.3
23 > media-fonts/font-sun-misc-1.0.3
24 >
25
26
27 Maybe you emerged the meta package x11-base/xorg-x11 ?
28
29
30 >> Should I remove /usr/share/fonts/misc/ from the font path? Will it not
31 >> break something else?
32 >
33 > Quite likely it will. Some of the aliases like 6x13 are used as
34 > defaults by many old style Xt apps.
35 >
36
37 OK, I'll try setting the font path as a Xserver option, pushing misc to the end
38
39 >Lastly, not what you've asked but a friendly suggestion: consider
40 >dropping xterm and adopting rxvt, especially rxvt-unicode.
41
42 Why? Does urxvt has a "secure mode"? (which was the point, after all)
43 I browsed the man page and didn't find it.
44
45 I used urxvt for some time years ago, but got disappointed, can't
46 remember why (And to boot, the author said Linux *should* be called
47 GNU/Linux! )
48
49 Thanks
50
51 Jorge

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[gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu] Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>