[arch-general] How to specify a Type 1 font in .Xresources?

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 19:56:32 EDT 2012


> 0b. If I open ufonts.com_ti92pluspc.pfb with KFontFiew, then it calls the font
> "Ti92Pluspc, Regular". But if I execute "xlsfonts | grep [Pp]lus" I still get
> no hits.
>
> 1. There is no /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. (I saw that the wiki entry at
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration says to check this, so
> I had already tried to do that and discovered that the file doesn't exist.)

notimportant but interesting?? Xorg.1.log maybe.

> 2. Executing "xset q" tells me (slightly reformatted so as to avoid wrapping
> issues):
> FontPath:
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
>   /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
>   built-ins

hmm, why is it /usr/share/fonts/X11/ it's just /usr/share/fonts/ here

> 3. The font I want to use is in one of those directories:
> $ ls -al /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1
> total 76
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Oct 30 17:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Oct 30 17:50 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   184 Oct 30 17:50 fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   184 Oct 30 17:50 fonts.scale
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58184 Oct 30 17:50 ufonts.com_ti92pluspc.pfb
> $

grep ti92  /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/fonts.dir

-- 
damjan


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