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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:19:27
Message-Id: CAKpSnpKEBWQ34Lrb5uhvLRHds_Z3MCEEqkcR=XPtfUQmd6EYmA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu by lee
1 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:46 AM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 >>
4 > I'm using fvwm. I was having trouble with xterm once when I still used
5 > Fedora, and though I'm not sure, results might be different with
6 > different WMs (I seem to remember something about that).
7
8 I tried fvwm and there was no difference. Not a WM problem. Never
9 thought it would be, really.
10
11 It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp
12 in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before
13 /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to understand what happens
14 rather than blindly apply a fix, but anyway.
15
16 >
17
18 > Font Path:
19 > /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins
20 >
21 >
22 > That's by default.
23 >
24 > perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach(split(/,/, "/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins"));' | xargs ls
25 >
26 > ... shows files in each directory, except 'built-ins', of course.
27 >
28 >
29 > That brings up the question if there is some alternative to perls split
30 > in coreutils or bash. The split of coreutils appears to be supposed to
31 > be doing something rather useless?
32 >
33 Well, let's use Perl, by all means :) BTW, what does the busybox version do?
34
35 Jorge

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