Re: Fixed fonts in Debian
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:44:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>> I am currently using Etch, and loving it. However, my query is related
>> to monospace fonts in Debian.
>>
>> The release of Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty has prompted some of my
>> friends to move from Fedora Core to Debian and Ubuntu. Everything
>> seems smooth, but one friends doesn't like the Bitstream Vera/DejaVu
>> fonts, and misses the fixed font provided with Fedora Core.
Isn't this Luxi Mono, which is actually provided by ttf-xfree86-nonfree?
This my preferred monospace font as well.
>> Could
>> someone tell me where to get that font?
>>
>
> Welcom Kumar,
>
> I don't do graphics in email, sorry.
>
> What you want are xfonts. Look through the packages (apt-cache,
> aptitude, whatever, or the debian.org web site) for xfont and you'll see
> a slew of them. For fixed-width I use either monospace or terminus but
> there are others. There's also gsfonts-x11 that allows X to use the
> fonts supplied with gs (ghostscript, a postscript renderer).
>
> Doug.
>
>
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