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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu]
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:16:51
Message-Id: 20161219170736.4547.21EA94BD@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] font path [WAS: xterm menu] by Jorge Almeida
1 On 2016-12-19 02:39, Jorge Almeida wrote:
2
3 > $ ls /usr/share/fonts/misc/
4 > 10x20.pcf.gz 6x10.pcf.gz 7x13O.pcf.gz 9x15B.pcf.gz fonts.scale
5 > 12x13ja.pcf.gz 6x12.pcf.gz 7x13.pcf.gz 9x15.pcf.gz k14.pcf.gz
6 > 18x18ja.pcf.gz 6x13B.pcf.gz 7x14B.pcf.gz 9x18B.pcf.gz micro.pcf.gz
7 > 18x18ko.pcf.gz 6x13O.pcf.gz 7x14.pcf.gz 9x18.pcf.gz nil2.pcf.gz
8 > 4x6.pcf.gz 6x13.pcf.gz 8x13B.pcf.gz encodings.dir
9 > 5x7.pcf.gz 6x9.pcf.gz 8x13O.pcf.gz fonts.alias
10 > 5x8.pcf.gz 7x13B.pcf.gz 8x13.pcf.gz fonts.dir
11
12 Mine is much larger:
13
14 [5+0]~$ ls /usr/share/fonts/misc | wc -l
15 413
16 [6+0]~$ equery -Cq b /usr/share/fonts/misc
17 media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.3-r1
18 media-fonts/font-arabic-misc-1.0.3
19 media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.3
20 media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc-1.0.3
21 media-fonts/font-dec-misc-1.0.3
22 media-fonts/font-isas-misc-1.0.3
23 media-fonts/font-jis-misc-1.0.3
24 media-fonts/font-micro-misc-1.0.3
25 media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2
26 media-fonts/font-mutt-misc-1.0.3
27 media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc-1.1.2
28 media-fonts/font-sony-misc-1.0.3
29 media-fonts/font-sun-misc-1.0.3
30
31 > Should I remove /usr/share/fonts/misc/ from the font path? Will it not
32 > break something else?
33
34 Quite likely it will. Some of the aliases like 6x13 are used as
35 defaults by many old style Xt apps.
36
37 > And what is the standard way to set the font path? I know I can do it
38 > via the -fp flag of Xorg (I start X via xinit), but I assume most
39 > people don't do this.
40
41 I only know (with the current gentoo incarnation of X) how to _add_
42 directories to the path:
43
44 [4+0]~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/terminus.conf
45 Section "Files"
46 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
47 EndSection
48
49 Lastly, not what you've asked but a friendly suggestion: consider
50 dropping xterm and adopting rxvt, especially rxvt-unicode.
51
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: font path [WAS: xterm menu] Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>