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Re: Debian and X fonts



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On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>>> Friends,
>>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>>> When I start `xmms' I get
>>> 	** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>>> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>
>>> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
>>> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files? 
>>> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
>>> to install)?
>> What TTF fonts do you have installed?
> 
> The list of TTF fonts given by
> 
>   find / -type f -name "*.ttf" -or -name "*.TTF"|tee ~/tmp/out
> 
> is
> 
>   http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/tmp/fonts.txt

Hmmm, not encouraging.

How about: COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l | grep ttf
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