Indeed, that's an upstream pango decision to drop support for bitmap
fonts
** Changed in: pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Also affects: pango via
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861340
Title:
All bitmap fonts no longer visible after upgrade 19.10 -> Focal
(development)
Status in Pango:
Unknown
Status in pango1.0 package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
For years I've installed a bitmap font for my terminals, but since I
upgraded to Focal (development branch) today, it (and other bitmap
fonts) no longer work.
The font is 'Dina', from here:
http://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/?unapproved=504&moderation-hash=f1abb9d89caafa881dcfc05cd32372e7
I have always installed it using a script:
# install dina
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/Dina
cd /usr/share/fonts/Dina
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/Dina.zip
# enable bitmap fonts
sudo rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
# rebuild the cache
fc-cache -f -v
# Set as default mono font
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name "Dina 8"
This has always worked in the past, through many versions of Ubuntu,
including 19.10.
I installed Focal today, using `sudo do-release-upgrade -d`.
Now the above script does not make Dina visible in font selectors such
as that produced by the Tweaks / Fonts / [Monospace Text] button.
Terminals that were previously configured to use that font now display
the "box of hex digits" characters (what are they called?)
gnome-font-viewer does not list any of the installed bitmap fonts.
While trying to find a fix, I tried a few changes to the above script,
which did not help:
* Unzip to "$HOME/.fonts" instead
* Trying other symlinks in the fonts config.d:
(
cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
sudo rm -f 70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo ln -sf ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
)
(tried with both 'yes-bitmaps' and 'force-bitmaps')
* fc-cache -r # "really" force cache re-creation
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