On Sunday 15 of October 2017 10:26:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi all!
I just run into another interesting thing that I do not know how to solve -
and it's most likely not connected to TDE, but anyway:
Ages ago (~ 2004) there were a number of bitmap fonts available in debian.
I remember epic fights to replace them with TTF fonts. Some days ago I
tried to get bitmaped fonts into devuan - and failed miserably.
The situation on FreeBSD is this: bitmaped fonts (e.g. gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz
frim lfpfonts-fix) and ttf fonts (as any other fonts) coexist perfectly
well in X11. In any application (TDE/OpenSCAD/Scintilla/Terminator/... ) I
can select e.g. "Gamow". The font "Gamow" comes from the "Linux
Font
Project", so I suspected it's present on devuan as well.
Now the situation on devuan is quite different: There are only some bitmap
fonts available, none of these are selectable in X11 for
TDE/OpenSCAD/Scintilla/Terminator/... - but I can see them with "xfontsel".
Also it seams that the "Linux Font Project"-fonts are not in the archives
anymore.
I tried to add "gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz" by hand using TDE, but the font
installation failed. I tried to install it by copying the font to ~/.fonts,
but the font does not show up. "mkfontdir" in ~/.fonts creates a fonts.dir
with the entry "gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz
-lfp-gamow-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75--80-iso8859-1", but the only X11
application that sees this font is "xfontsel".
So, is there a way to get bitmaped fonts back?
Nik
I recommend that you focus your attention on the 70-no-bitmaps.conf symlink in
the folder /etc/fonts/conf.d
Cheers
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Slávek