Re: locale and font alias

[Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@yahoo.com>]

T wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default
> locale to English?

~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales  	#As a User
~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales	#As Root

use the SpaceBar key to place/remove an [x] in the boxes - use Tab key to jump
around, use Up/Down arrows as well, and Enter key to trigger.

> As the side effect, the fixed font is of iso8859-15:

Make it look like this

	[*] en_US ISO-8859-1 

If you want only want that one available -- you can also select/deselect many.
Then you should see this in /etc/locale.gen

~$ cat /etc/locale.gen

	en_US ISO-8859-1
	
	#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Note above, the UTF-8 entry is commented out - I did that using the
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' command above (using SpaceBar key to deselect)... I
*think* it's ok to manually edit the file (with root privs). See 'man locales'

>  $ grep ^fix /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
>  fixed  -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
> 
> Having removed all xfonts-*-transcoded fonts, my X won't start any more:
> 
>  Fatal server error:
>  could not open default font 'fixed';
> 
> How can I fix that? 
> 
> Note, remove and re-install xfonts-base didn't help. 
> 
> Please help. 
> 
> thanks

Not sure, Do you want X installed? Look at the output of this command;
~$ apt-cache showpkg xserver 

If you want to use Xfree86 (Default on "Sarge") make sure you have atleast
these;
~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-common
~$ sudo apt-get install x-window-system-core

You likely need/want these 75 and 100dpi fonts perhaps(?)
~$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
~$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi

(I also see I have many more fonts installed, such as
'xfonts-75dpi-transcoded', and 'xfonts-100dpi-transcoded', and many others for
whatever reason they are there).

To Reconfigure XFree86 or Xorg (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/Xorg.conf)
use these respectively;

~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 	# for Sarge (Stable)
~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg   	# for Etch (Testing and Unstable)

Here's some Font entries in my Sarge XF86Config-4 file;
[...]
Section "Files"
	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
[...]

Hth

Regards

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