On 03/05/2017 06:41 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day. > > I'm not getting anywhere. > > for example: > /usr/share/fonts shows all these: > > 100dpi corefonts encodings inconsolata-hellenic misc util > 75dpi cyrillic inconsolata liberation-fonts urw-fonts > > Probably going at this ass backwards but it seems just about none of > thes are accessabel to an xterm > > xlsfonts shows many `misc fixed' fonts that can be loaded into xterm. > > But I have not found how to load any of the others. > > For example: fc-list shows a whole different list of fonts. > I tried several and none of those were loadable into xterm. > > Trying by there names inside the directories above I have found none > are recognized by xterm > > Looking at the fonts.dir files .. at least most of those names look > familiar in the format I'm used to such as this: > > -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1 > That one is found with xlsfonts. > > Something like this from inconsolata fonts.dir file: > > -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 > > xterm -fn -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 > xterm: cannot load font > '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1' > xterm: cannot load font > '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1' > > trying the other kind of names there: > > xterm -fn Inconsolata-Regular.ttf > xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf' > xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf' > > Leave it at that for the moment... > > googling for hours on this I find xterm can understand a different > switch `xterm -fa bla-bla' > > However, xterm as installed from portage does not understand that > switch at all. > > Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to have that ability > compiled in, so I wondered if our xterm is compiled for that option? > > And further if anyone knows what that compile option might be? > > Can anyone offer some guidance here... > > How to get a few of those fonts to be loadable into an xterm? > >
Please clarify ... ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), and/or specific xterm ( i.e "x11-terms/xterm" ). Corbin
