Re: font problems

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:39:51 -0500
"Mike Polyakov" <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > $ fc-cache -vf ~./fonts
> > > /home/mike./fonts: skipping, no such directory
> > > /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
> > > /home/mike/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
> 
> > Note the typo in the invocation of fc-cache. Correct it, and try
> > again.
> 
> Hi,
> I'm sorry about the typo. Here's the output again:
> 
> $ ls -l ~/.fonts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike    83 2007-02-05 16:39 fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 21024 2007-02-03 15:35 ProggyClean.pcf
> $ fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
> /home/mike/.fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs

This line tells you that fontconfig is simply ignoring the font. It
would be interesting to see what would happen if you placed a true type
font there.

> /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
> /home/mike/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
> fc-cache: succeeded
> $ fc-list | grep -i proggy
> $ 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
> 
> The GVIM's font selector dialog doesn't show the font.
> Thanks.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 

All I can suggest now is that you copy the font to one of the
system directories listed when you run 'fc-cache -vf' (without a
directory argument). Seems a lot of trouble to go to just to use a font,
doesn't it? Fortunately, defoma does all this work for you in the case
of official Debian font packages.

-- 

Liam