[gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?

[gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?

[Walter Dnes]

  After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my
list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got
down to this...

[i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world
media-fonts/dejavu
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1

  That's in addition to any fonts pulled in by programs.  Without
dejavu, ICEWM menus look ugly.  I like font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
for xterms.  In your experience, are...

media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1

...really necessary?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?

[lee]

"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

>   After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my
> list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got
> down to this...
>
> [i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world
> media-fonts/dejavu
> media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
>
>   That's in addition to any fonts pulled in by programs.  Without
> dejavu, ICEWM menus look ugly.  I like font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
> for xterms.  In your experience, are...
>
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
>
> ...really necessary?

They are probably not necessary.  Does it hurt to have them?

You might definitely want the fonts in the 'media-fonts/source-pro'
package.  Those are kinda like Dejavu and Lucida done right, which you
don't need either.