On 2017-03-20 13:33 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 06:17:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2017-03-20 13:05 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 05:58:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> >> On 2017-03-18 16:37 -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> >> > but "xfd -fa FreeMono-14" works fine, so I figured
>> >> > I would start with xterm.
>> >>
>> >> …I cannot reproduce your problem. See the attached screenshot, where
>> >> the underscore is rendered just fine.
>> >
>> > Your screenshot does not depict the FreeMono font; your screenshot has
>> > serifs all over the glyphs; FreeMono (or at least the font resolved by
>> > the name "FreeMono" on my system) is a sans-serif font.
>>
>> Which font would that be, and which package do I need to install to get
>> it? I am a total noob when it comes to fonts.
>
> I apologize; the name FreeMono is a bit of a red herring. I carried the
> name over via a dotfile from a different machine. If you run the xfd
> command shown above, it identifies the "matching" font[1] as
>
> DejaVu Sans Mono-14
>
> ...which I'm betting comes from the following file:
>
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
>
> in the following package:
>
> fonts-dejavu-core
Thanks, this is a package already installed on my system.
> Does this help you repro the problem?
No, attached is a screenshot of "xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono -fs 14".
> [1] On my Debian Stretch system installed freshly as of Friday, 17 March,
> "matching" is a generous term. "xfd -fa X-14" also brings up DejaVu
> Sans Mono-14. Frustratingly, "fc-list $pattern" as documented in the
> fc-list(1) manpage seems to be useless, returning no matches no matter
> what $pattern is. But that's a bug for a different package...
Apparently fc-match gives better results than fc-list. On my system it
revealed that FreeMono is best matched by FreeMono.ttf coming from the
fonts-freefont-ttf package, followed by DejaVuSansMono.ttf.
Cheers,
Sven
