fontconfig detects multiple character advances in some of the Luxi Mono fonts, so doesn't think they're monospaced. This causes problems when running xterm -fa "Luxi Mono", since it adds :spacing=100 to the pattern when requesting a font from fontconfig to prefer monospaced fonts. Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxxxxx> --- For the background here, see the thread "fontconfig not recognizing Luxi Mono as monospace" on the fontconfig mailing list recently. 42-luxi-mono.conf | 12 ++++++++++++ Makefile.am | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 42-luxi-mono.conf diff --git a/42-luxi-mono.conf b/42-luxi-mono.conf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7babe82 --- /dev/null +++ b/42-luxi-mono.conf @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> +<!-- force fontconfig to treat the Luxi Mono fonts as monospaced, even + though it detects multiple character widths --> +<fontconfig> + <match target="scan"> + <test name="family"> + <string>Luxi Mono</string> + </test> + <edit name="spacing"><int>100</int></edit> + </match> +</fontconfig> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index c709ad9..2417e91 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ FONT_FILES = \ fontdir = @FONTDIR@ font_DATA = $(FONT_FILES) +fontconfigdir = $(sysconfdir)/fonts/conf +actualconfigdir = $(fontconfigdir)/conf.d +availconfigdir = $(fontconfigdir)/conf.avail +availconfig_DATA = 42-luxi-mono.conf + EXTRA_DIST = $(FONT_FILES) COPYRIGHT.BH MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = ChangeLog INSTALL @@ -45,6 +50,9 @@ install-data-hook: $(MKFONTSCALE) $(DESTDIR)$(fontdir) @rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(fontdir)/font.dir $(MKFONTDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(fontdir) + mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(actualconfigdir) + @rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(actualconfigdir)/$(availconfig_DATA) + ln -s ../conf.avail/$(availconfig_DATA) $(DESTDIR)$(actualconfigdir) @RUN_FCCACHE@ distuninstallcheck: -- 1.5.6.5 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
