From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0D61384B4 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8FDE21C009; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1DE21C002 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:35:28 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0B5EwA731xV/8qGpUVcgxBUXogluzcJgVqEaYEIBAICgTw5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQQ6HBoZLBMSDwUlJBMaiBINzxYBAQEBBgEBAQEaBJBGgxeBFgWMMIZAd4M6hEOCC4E7hj2EbIhsgUUjYYM1IDEBgkYBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0B5EwA731xV/8qGpUVcgxBUXogluzcJgVqEaYEIBAICgTw5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQQ6HBoZLBMSDwUlJBMaiBINzxYBAQEBBgEBAQEaBJBGgxeBFgWMMIZAd4M6hEOCC4E7hj2EbIhsgUUjYYM1IDEBgkYBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="178891319" Received: from 69-165-134-202.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.134.202]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2015 17:35:26 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:35:09 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:35:09 -0500 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts? Message-ID: <20151120223509.GA22397@waltdnes.org> References: <20151120005353.GA18323@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151120005353.GA18323@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 8894c497-0daf-47cb-b8c5-1cec2f7b6bd4 X-Archives-Hash: a9429f9e7969bd1d3a3743746a8a03d6 See the last post "Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:56 pm" in the thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-813945-start-0.html Apparently, some time ago, USE="nls" became necessary for basic xterm functionality in ISO8859-1. If there was a news item, I missed it. I tried... USE="nls" emerge font-misc-misc ...and now things mostly work. The xterm has multiple font sizes for unreadable/tiny/small/medium/large/huge. Text defaults to bold; I'll try to figure that out. Next step is to grep all "media-fonts" entries in /var/lib/portage/world, and rebuild them. I notice that... media-fonts/* nls ...in package.use actually works the way I want, which simplifies things rebuilding now, and it'll automatically catch any updates or new fonts in the future. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications