[arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X

Tue Apr 24 06:03:44 EDT 2012

Add path to /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

and exec mkfontdir;mkfontscale in ~/.fonts dir, finally exec fc-cache -fv

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Kirill Churin <reflexing at reflexing.ru>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:34 AM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please
> feel
> > free to point me to such a place if one exists.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make
> some
> > fonts available to X.
> >
> > My understanding of the process is:
> >
> > 1. Put the fonts in a directory.
> > 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory.
> > 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory.
> > 4. run xset +fp <directory name>
> >
> > So what I did:
> >
> > 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts.
> > 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts.
> >
> > At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about
> > the wrapping):
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf ->
> > /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm ->
> > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb ->
> > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb
> >
> > 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts.
> >
> > This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents:
> >
> > 33
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni
> > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u
> > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252
> >
> > 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts.
> >
> > This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale.
> >
> > 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes
> > ~/.fonts in its path, but running
> >  xset q
> > did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list.
> >
> > So I ran:
> >  xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts
> >
> > But now we come to the problem. This command returns:
> >
> > xset:  bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
> >    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >    Directory missing fonts.dir
> >    Incorrect font server address or syntax
> >
> > But:
> > a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the
> user.
> > b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir
> > c. The syntax looks OK.
> >
> > So what is xset complaining about?
> >
> > (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since
> if I
> > create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since
> > the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor
> > how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.)
> >
> >  Doc
> >
> > --
> > Web:  http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
> >
>
> There are no dot in /home/n7dr/fonts/ path. Should be  /home/n7dr/.fonts/
>
> --
> Kirill Churin
> Jabber: reflexing at reflexing.ru
>