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 -- Slávek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
