Re: font problems
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:46:44 -0500
"Mike Polyakov" <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've had this problem for a while and it would be nice to resolve it
> once and for all. I am trying to install ProggyClean pcf font from
> http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download. I've read a couple
> of tutorials on how to do this, but still the font does not show up in
> the font selection dialog of GVIM. These are the steps I have tried:
>
> $ cp ProggyClean.pcf.gz ~/.fonts
> $ cd ~/.fonts
> $ gzip -d ProggyClean.pcf.gz
> $ mkfontdir
> $ xset +fp $(pwd)
> $ xset fp rehash
> # /etc/init.d/xfs restart
> Stopping X font server: xfs.
> Setting up X font server socket directory /tmp/.font-unix...done.
> Starting X font server: xfs.
> $ xlsfonts | grep -i proggy
> -windows-proggyclean-medium-r-normal--0-0-96-96-c-0-iso8859-1
> -windows-proggyclean-medium-r-normal--13-80-96-96-c-70-iso8859-1
>
> So xlsfonts shows that the font is installed. I can even choose it
> with xfontsel utility. However, the it is not shown in font selector
> inside GVIM (or other text editors such as gedit or kedit). My GVIM is
> the standard vim-gtk package, which uses GTK2 GUI. I was able to
> resolve this in the past by compiling gvim on my own with gtk gui,
> which is considerably different from gtk2. However, now I am running
> into problems while compiling gvim, and ultimately I would like to use
> this font with any gtk2 gui program without having to compile
> anything. Please help me, this has been bothering me for a while.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Is this a bitmap font? Fontconfig (the font library used by GTK and QT)
ignores bitmap fonts by default. To change this, run 'dpkg-reconfigure
fontconfig-config' as root and answer yes to the question re. bitmap
fonts. On sarge the command is 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'.
--
Liam
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