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On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I have these fonts as displayed by xlsfonts
>
> xlsfonts|grep dec
> [...]
>
> -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-dec-dectech
> -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
>
> [...]
>
> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
> decw$cursor
> decw$session
[...]
> But I want to know where the ones listed in xlsfonts come from. Not
> finding anything on aptitude search that looks likely. But may under
> a name not including `dec'.
I don't know if there's a way to ask the X server whence a font comes
from, but with a bit of guesswork...
First I checked I've the fonts you note above.
Then I query the X server where it looks for its fonts:
tomas@rasputin:~$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
[...]
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
(output edited for readability). Since those DEC fonts are most probably
bitmap fonts, and the font description string has an 75 in its dpi field,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/ looks like a good candidate. Looking there,
I see no "dec", but two "term" (i.e two file names with "term" in them).
Let's peek into one:
tomas@rasputin:~$ gunzip < /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/term14.pcf.gz | strings
| less
[...]
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
_DEC_PRODUCTINFO
DECterm Fonts V2.2, 11-Nov-1991
FULL_NAME
Terminal
FONT
-DEC-Terminal-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-C-80-ISO8859-1
WEIGHT
[...]
That looks promising, does it? Now -- which package provided that?
tomas@rasputin:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/term14.pcf.gz
xfonts-75dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/term14.pcf.gz
Perhaps there's a more canonical way to do that. Comments welcome :)
- -- t
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