Re: terminal true type fonts
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:49:57PM EDT, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> > $ aterm -fn "-microsoft-comic sans
> > ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1"
> >
> > .. works here ..
>
> Not here :)
> [09:56 PM Sun Aug 20][mito@defiant]:~
> $ aterm -fn "-microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1"
> aterm: can't load font "-microsoft-comic sans
> ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1"
>
> > Aren't they listed when you issue a:
> >
> > $ xlsfonts | grep comic
> >
>
> no
>
> > How did you install them?
> >
>
> I followed:
> http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/Font-HOWTO/html/Font-HOWTO/x169.html
>
I installed the msttcorefonts package over a year ago but I don't
remember having to read a HOWTO or doing anything manually.
I _think_ all I had to was an apt-get install msttcorefonts .. bounced
my X session .. done.
Did you do that or did you copy the font over from a Windows box?
> > Did you install the msttcorefonts package?
>
> yeah
>
> Don't know why it dosent work. You mean all you did was install
> msttcorefonts?
>
.. as far as I can remember. I am not sure.
Thanks
cga
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