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  • How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

    From Chris Green@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 10:50:01 2024
    I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running
    Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts
    but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts.

    So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra
    terminus fonts haven't become available.

    Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available?

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    Chris Green
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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Thu Dec 12 15:30:01 2024
    On 12/12/24 04:32, Chris Green wrote:
    I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running
    Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts
    but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts.

    So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra
    terminus fonts haven't become available.

    Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available?

    Might be a resource, might be in the prefs somewhere. What program is it?

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Thu Dec 12 15:50:02 2024
    Chris Green wrote:
    I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running
    Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts
    but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts.

    So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra
    terminus fonts haven't become available.

    Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available?

    Yes. The easiest is to restart X.

    Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font
    server and/or `xset fp`

    -dsr-

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  • From Nicolas George@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 16:00:01 2024
    Dan Ritter (12024-12-12):
    Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font
    server and/or `xset fp`

    For real X11 fonts, if the package is properly done, the fun with xset
    is just `xset fp rehash`.

    The `xlsfonts` to see if the fonts are there without relying on the
    extra layer of the program using them.

    Regards,

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    Nicolas George

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Dan Ritter on Thu Dec 12 16:20:02 2024
    On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:31:16AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
    Chris Green wrote:
    I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running
    Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts
    but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts.

    So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra
    terminus fonts haven't become available.

    Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available?

    Yes. The easiest is to restart X.

    Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font
    server and/or `xset fp`

    Yes, I seem to have the added terminus fonts now, what was confusing
    me was that they are 72dpi so my default xlsfonts searches (which
    looked for 100x100 or 75x75 fonts) didn't find them.

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    Chris Green

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