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Lucidasanstypewriter-12 is still my favourite xterm font. A long time |
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ago, it switched from ISO8859-1 to ISO10646. Fortunately, I had 2 |
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machines, and salvaged the /usr/share/fonts directory from one, and |
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still insert it in place of whatever portage gives me. I realize that |
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it's an ugly hack, and I'd like to do things the right way. The problem |
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is that I can't figure out how. I'm doing a re-install on a machine, so |
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I can play around a little bit. On the fresh install when I include... |
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/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 |
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...in my .xinitrc and launch X manually. The xterm is rather small. |
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When I {CTRL}{RIGHT-CLICK}, the xterm dies and disappears. Meanwhile, |
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on the text console that launched X is the message... |
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Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Error: Aborting: no font found |
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Note that I did not specify any fonts. My Google-fu didn't help very |
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much. The best suggestions I found were to... |
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a) put all sub-directories in /usr/share/fonts into FontPath statements |
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in xorg.conf |
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b) run "xlsfonts > textfile" and search for a font |
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I found a bunch of 8859-1 fonts, and chose "b&h luxi" fonts (put |
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special characters in the name, why don't you?). I inserted the |
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following into my .xinitrc (backslashes are required). |
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/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn -b\&h-luxi\ mono-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 & |
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...and started X. This time the xterm did not die on {CTRL}{RIGHT-CLICK}. |
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Only "Default" font size and "Unreadable" worked properly. All other |
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choices ended up with a middling font size when I cycled through the |
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choices. The text console from which I launched X reported... |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '5x7' |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '6x10' |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '7x13' |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '9x15' |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '10x20' |
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Some progress, but I'm not there yet. I'm sure people have working |
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setups. Any ideas? |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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