* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?
@ 2015-03-29 9:23 99% ` lee
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From: lee @ 2015-03-29 9:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
walt <w41ter@gmail.com> writes:
> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> <snip all questions I can't answer>
>
>> When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the
>> xterm crashes.
>
> I had the same problem once. IIRC, strace showed me that xterm was trying
> to load the "default" font but there was no value set for "default".
>
> Somehow I managed to set the "default" font, but I can't remember how it
> did it. Maybe someone else can supply details?
My xterm shows that it's using the default font. I would guess that the
default might be set through .Xresources or through command line
parameters.
There's not much explanation here, the following just works for me:
AFAIK, the font names are case sensitive. For .Xresources:
xterm*FaceName: xft:Source Code Pro:pixelsize=14:style=Regular
You can also use 'xterm -fa "LucidaTypewriter-16"', see man xterm.
Support for truetype must be compiled into xterm (x11-terms/xterm
truetype). If you use fvwm with tt-fonts, also use 'truetype'.
As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro".
They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately,
they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora
installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs.
I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It
requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
how to do that?
And for emacs, in .Xressources:
Emacs.FontBackend: xft
and in .emacs:
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "green" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal :foundry "adobe" :family "Source Code Pro"))))
'(font-lock-comment-delimiter-face ((t (:inherit font-lock-comment-face :foreground "deep sky blue"))))
'(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "goldenrod"))))
'(font-lock-warning-face ((t (:inherit error :foreground "DarkSlateGray1")))))
with:
app-editors/emacs X athena Xaw3d xft -gtk -motif tookit-scroll-bars gif imagemagick jpeg png svg tiff xpm gnutls gzip-el inotify libxml2 wide-int
To show which fonts are installed, there's 'fc-list'. When you want
user specific fonts, put them into ~/.config/fonts/ and run 'fc-cache'.
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