On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:31:16AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra > > terminus fonts haven't become available. > > > > Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available? > > Yes. The easiest is to restart X. > > Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font > server and/or `xset fp` > Yes, I seem to have the added terminus fonts now, what was confusing me was that they are 72dpi so my default xlsfonts searches (which looked for 100x100 or 75x75 fonts) didn't find them.
-- Chris Green
