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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus font for X11 : how to?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:37:08
Message-Id: 7FZSPKEV.ZK3XHEJG.V7QZ5EH3@4DZF6Z4I.KEWLBAT4.HK2BJQFU
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus font for X11 : how to? by Jack
1 On 10/06/2020 11:12:02 PM, Jack wrote:
2 > On 2020.10.06 16:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I would like to use a Terminus font under X11.
6 >> I have emerged media-fonts/terminus-font
7 >>
8 >> eselect fontconfig list
9 >> show that 75-yes-terminus.conf is selected.
10 >>
11 >> Still
12 >> xlsfonts doesn't show this font.
13 >> What am I missing?
14 >>
15 >> Many thanks for a hint,
16 >> Helmut
17 > Searching on "enable terminus font in xorg" the third hit is
18 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164392 and what didn't
19 > work for that person (slight variant) did work for me:
20 >
21 > xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminal
22 > xset fp rehash
23 >
24
25 Thanks Jack, that did help!
26 But, why on earth isn't that done by Gentoo ?
27
28 Helmut