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
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.
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
Am Sonntag, 15. Oktober 2017 schrieb Slávek Banko:
I recommend that you focus your attention on the 70-no-bitmaps.conf symlink in the folder /etc/fonts/conf.d
Hi Slávek!
Thank you very much, removing that said file solved the issue :-)
Nik
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