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 added some fonts from outside portage this way: (Sorry that what follows is a bit of a confusing mess) mkdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus loaded the fonts into termininus Ran: mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus Ran: xset fp rehash Which is supposed to tell the X fonts tools about the new set of fonts with out having to restart X. I thought a bit and wondered if I might should have added the new directory to the font path.. I don't really think so since the default path covers the new one but still....so: Ran: xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminus That is supposed to prepend that path to the existing path. Checked with: xset q And I see the new directory Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/terminus_hp3-170310/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,built-ins The new fonts show up with `fc-list' OK, all seems to be working... Until I actually try to use them. xterm -fa ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf (output wrapped for mail) Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion It appears the xterm is trying to load a font from somewhere else even though I asked for `ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf' I'm not at all sure where the -adobe-helvetica if being called. sudo grep -r 'adobe-helvetica' /usr/share/fonts <Nothing> However there are piles of fonts with `adobe' in the name: sudo grep -r adobe /usr/share/fonts|wc-l 173 They appear to be mostly like this: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/fonts.scale:verdanaz.ttf -microsoft-verdana-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard Thought it might be from .Xresoures but there are no fonts there with adobe in the name `grep adobe .Xresources' <nothing> Anybody here recognize what the problem might be? There are a few helvetica in the .. only one is english: /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:variable \ -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 And two japanese helveticas So I can't even tell where that adobe font is coming from