Re: font problems
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:17:36 -0500
> "Mike Polyakov" <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >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'.
> >
> > Hi,
> > This is a pcf font and I think it is a bitmapped font. I ran
> > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config and answered yes to using bitmapped
> > fonts. However this did not solve my problem and I still can't choose
> > to use that font inside GVIM's font selected dialog. Any other ideas?
> > Thanks.
>
> Is the font seen by fontconfig at all? Check the output of the 'fc-list'
> command. If the font appears there then it should be available to
> other applications such as gedit. This should at least help you to
> narrow down where the problem is.
man fc-cache
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