Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dec-terminal fonts

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Friday, September 11, 2015 12:07:45 PM Harry Putnam wrote:
> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote
> >> I've got to liking this font:
> >>   -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
> >>
> >> But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me which font package would have -dec-termainal [...]
> >> fonts?
> >
> >   Maybe media-fonts/font-dec-misc ?  An alternative option might be
> > media-fonts/terminus-font
>
> Thanks, that first sure looks like it should be the one.  When I
> searched with `eix' looking for dec a couple days ago... I somehow,
> probably thru operator error, did not uncover it ... although I easily
> find it now.
>
> There must be some other problems
>
> I happened to have checked the output of xlsfonts|wc -l, which showed
>   1513
> before installing both of those above.
>
> Once they were installed I do not find any dec-terminal fonts but also
> `xlsfonts|wc -l' still shows 1513
>
> I thought I had noticed that count staying the same earlier when I
> installed the pkg thelma mentioned; but never verified before and
> after like I did now.
>
>   qlist font-dec-misc
>   /usr/share/doc/font-dec-misc-1.0.3/ChangeLog.bz2
>   /usr/share/fonts/misc/decsess.pcf.gz
>   /usr/share/fonts/misc/deccurs.pcf.gz
>
> And terminus-font has too many files to list here
>   qlist terminus-font|wc -l
>    288
>
> Surely the number recorded in xlsfonts should rise eh?
>
> PS - For the record eix showed neither package you posted to be
> installed prior to the installations I performed a few minutes ago,
> yet no increase in number of fonts....
>
> Am I wrong to expect xslfonts to show what I have installed?

I think that's a console font, not X.

How did you get to liking it?
If from another distro you can:

1. Find the package name on that distro and see if you can find a similar named 
package on portage.
2. Find the upstream package name and grep the portage tree for the name part 
of that file.
3. Grab the font from the other distro and install manually to /usr/local or 
(I think) ~/.local. If you use kde it has a nice interface for managing fonts 
on system settings.
4. Make an ebuild for it.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez