15 Oct
2017
15 Oct
'17
10:10 a.m.
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2017-10-15 10:26 (UTC+0200):
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?
Try putting manually installed fonts in a non-deprecated location, either:
~/.local/share/fonts/ (user-specific), or
/usr/local/share/fonts/ (global)
https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/14
https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts?action=diff&rev1=89&rev2=90 (deprecated location
restored to Debian wiki)
If this fails, try adding explicit font paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
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