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.