[gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Ralf Stephan]

Hello,
I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with
xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string.
I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash.

What am I missing?


ralf

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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Roman Zilka]

> I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with
> xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string.
> I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash.
> 
> What am I missing?

I think this ought to do the job:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/unifont
(?followed by xset fp rehash?)

I'm not very knowledgeable in this however. Just a guess.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Daniel Vrcic]

* Ralf Stephan <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de> [07-10-19 14:30]:
> Hello,
> I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with
> xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string.
> I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash.
> 
> What am I missing?

You should have unifont's path listed in the "Files" section of
xorg.conf:

Section "Files":
...
	FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont
...

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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Ralf Stephan]

Daniel Vrcic wrote 
> You should have unifont's path listed in the "Files" section of
> xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Files":
> ...
> 	FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont
> ...

Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?


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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:35 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:

> Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
> things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?

That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps
you manage files that a package installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed.
Since font packages don't supply xorg.conf there's nothing to
CONFIG_PROTECT and therefore etc-update is futile.  Actually the package
that actually uses xorg.conf, xorg-server, doesn't even supply
xorg.conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Ralf Stephan]

Albert wrote 
> > Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
> > things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?
> 
> That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps
> you manage files that a package installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed.
> Since font packages don't supply xorg.conf there's nothing to
> CONFIG_PROTECT and therefore etc-update is futile. ...

Then let me phrase it alternatively. As another poster said (thanks),
the path can be set with xset +fp. Shouldn't this be done at
installation?


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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

[Peter Alfredsen]

On Monday 22 October 2007, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Albert wrote

> Then let me phrase it alternatively. As another poster said (thanks),
> the path can be set with xset +fp. Shouldn't this be done at
> installation?

That can only be done per-session. Also, you have to be in an X-session for it 
to work. And it'll do bugger-all once you restart.

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