Re: [gentoo-user] X11 server not seeing font dirs

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On 11/21/20 7:02 PM, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
> $ xlsfonts | grep -i mono
> $ xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/freefont
> $ xlsfonts | grep -i mono | head -1
> -misc-freemono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
> $
>
> I.e. it works as expected.


Okay, that's good to know.  I'm unfortunately not at the machine that
was giving me problems, I'll to through those exact steps in a week or two.


>
> # emerge -aqv media-fonts/courier-prime
> ...
>
> $ xset +fp  /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime
> $ xset q | grep prime
>    /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime,/usr/share/fonts/freefont,/usr/local/share/fonts,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins
> $ xlsfonts | grep -i prime
> $
>
> So my courier-prime fp doesn't dissapear, but xlsfonts doesn't
> report them as a core font.
>
> I run fvwm2 on an older X without udev, can it be a fancy modern destop
> that changes this under the hood for you ?


I run fvwm2, too.  :-)



>
> I can see the font with
>
> $ fc-list 'Courier prime'
> /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/Courier Prime Bold.ttf: Courier Prime:style=Bold
> /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/Courier Prime.ttf: Courier Prime:style=Regular
> /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/Courier Prime Bold Italic.ttf: Courier Prime:style=Bold Italic
> /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/Courier Prime Italic.ttf: Courier Prime:style=Italic


Isn't the fontconfig system a separate, disconnected font service?


> $ xfd -fa 'Courier prime'
> ...


I don't have that command and didn't find a man page right away on the
internet.  I see there's a gentoo package for it, it looks useful.


>
>   Can the problem be that there is a space in the x core font name?


I renamed the files in the courier-prime package with dashes and
regenerated fonts.dir and the other one, too.  Didn't help.


>
> $ head -2  /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/fonts.dir
> 16
> Courier prime bold italic.ttf -misc-courier prime-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> $
>
> If I, as root, do:
>
> cd /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime/
> perl -wpi.bak -e 'tr/ /_/; s/_-/ -/' fonts.dir
> perl -wpi.bak -e 'tr/ /_/; s/_-/ -/' fonts.scale
> list=`ls -1  | grep Cour | tr ' ' '_'`
> for i in $list; do b=`echo $i  | tr '_' ' '`; mv "$b" $i; done
>
>   Then I can do:
> $ xset fp rehash


I used my fixms(1) script (attached).


> $ xlsfonts | grep -i prime | head -1
> -misc-courier_prime-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> $ xfd -fn -misc-courier_prime-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-misc-courier_prime-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1" to type FontStruct
> xfd:  no font to display
> $ xterm -fn -misc-courier_prime-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1
> xterm: cannot load font "-misc-courier_prime-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1"
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot use it...
>
> I don't think x likes core fonts with spaces in font- nor
> filenames.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>

Okay, I didn't get that far.  I'll try to get more documentation.

Thanks for looking into it.


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