[Solved] No Terminus in the system

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-17 12:45:27

Installed terminus-font package. Added

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

to .xinitrc, rebooted, but still no terminus in the system. What else should I do?

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-02-19 15:20:12)

creatid · 2011-02-17 13:12:01

I have nothing in my .xinitrc, but added

xterm*faceName: terminus:pixelsize=14

to my .Xdefaults (for the user).
Can't remember where I found that, but it works for me (using openbox).

Hope this helps.

karol · 2011-02-17 13:15:45

What do you mean by "no terminus in the system" - how did you check?
On my system, after I run 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local' I can see it in xfontsel.
Try

fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,'| sort -u | grep -i terminus

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-17 13:22:54

What do you mean by "no terminus in the system" - how did you check?

I use GNOME and I can't find Terminus in gnome-terminal settings. I want to use Terminus in gnome-terminal.

Mr.Elendig · 2011-02-17 14:36:33

terminus is not a ttf font and will not show up in the gnome font browsers. It will however show up in xfontsel.

Btw, usually better to edit xorg.conf to set the fontpath for system wide fonts.

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-17 15:33:29

Are artwiz fonts also like Terminus - can't be used everywhere?

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Mr. Alex · 2011-02-17 16:47:00

> terminus is not a ttf font and will not show up in the gnome font browsers

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/426/ … rminus.png

litemotiv · 2011-02-17 19:39:12

Mr. Alex wrote:

> terminus is not a ttf font and will not show up in the gnome font browsers
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/426/ … rminus.png

So how did you solve your problem?

Also don't forget to mark your thread solved.

Mr.Elendig · 2011-02-17 20:09:05

Mr. Alex wrote:

> terminus is not a ttf font and will not show up in the gnome font browsers
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/426/ … rminus.png

Hm, It has never shown up for me since gnome 2.22, on several different distroes.

How did you get it to show up?

karol · 2011-02-17 20:26:44

It's not OP's screenshot guys :-)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ost4261665

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-18 08:36:02

So how did you solve your problem?
Also don't forget to mark your thread solved.

Hm, It has never shown up for me since gnome 2.22, on several different distroes.
How did you get it to show up?

The point is - it is not mine. If the screenshot author explains how to make it work, I'll post it here.

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MTK358 · 2011-02-18 11:08:08

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ost4261665

The thing is that I don't remember having to do something to make it work, I just installed it and it was there.

In case it matters, I'm not using GNOME, just Openbox. But I do have GNOME installed.

thayer · 2011-02-18 15:52:51

Mr. Alex wrote:

The point is - it is not mine. If the screenshot author explains how to make it work, I'll post it here.

You have not answered the previous suggestions made here. For example, karol suggested in the third post that you look for terminus in 'xfontsel' and also to run the fc-list command to see if terminus appears in the list of output. Did it?

To make terminus work, regardless of application, all that should be required is to add:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local

to your startup scripts.

If that fails, then somewhere along the way you're doing it wrong.

Are you certain that ~/.xinitrc is being executed when you log in? If you're using GNOME you may want to add the +fp command directly to your start-up applications list within GNOME.

Last edited by thayer (2011-02-18 15:54:39)

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-18 17:01:49

You have not answered the previous suggestions made here. For example, karol suggested in the third post that you look for terminus in 'xfontsel' and also to run the fc-list command to see if terminus appears in the list of output. Did it?

Now I did. Yes, Terminus is in xfontsel.

> xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local

And I did that before asking here this question. I guess the reason is in Gnome. If you run gnome-terminal in some WM, it'll show up there (idea from MTK358).

Are you certain that ~/.xinitrc is being executed when you log in?

I guess it is while I run third initlevel and GDM. I performed "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local" manually in Gnome though, so it's done anyway.

UPD: "fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,'| sort -u | grep -i terminus" outputs nothing.
"fc-list | grep -i termin" also outputs nothing.

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-02-18 17:06:35)

thayer · 2011-02-18 17:35:25

> Now I did. Yes, Terminus is in xfontsel.

Okay so at least we know the package is installed properly.

> xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local

> And I did that before asking here this question. I guess the reason is in Gnome. If you run gnome-terminal in some WM, it'll show up there (idea from MTK358).

It should show up in gnome-terminal regardless of WM or DE as long as X is aware of the fontdir path (/usr/share/fonts/local)

>> Are you certain that ~/.xinitrc is being executed when you log in?

> I guess it is while I run third initlevel and GDM. I performed "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local" manually in Gnome though, so it's done anyway.

xinitrc is ignored when GDM is used.

> "fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,'| sort -u | grep -i terminus" outputs nothing.

Try running the following in a terminal window and then run te fc-list command again:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

thayer · 2011-02-18 17:41:13

Also, I'm going to assume that you have not disabled bitmap fonts in fontconfig as explained here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … tmap_fonts

This would cause the Terminus font to be disabled in any fontconfig-aware applications including gnome-terminal.

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-18 20:40:38

> I guess it is while I run third initlevel and GDM. I performed "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local" manually in Gnome though, so it's done anyway.
xinitrc is ignored when GDM is used.

I did now:

$ xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
$ xset fp rehash
$ fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,'| sort -u | grep -i terminus

No output...

It should show up in gnome-terminal regardless of WM or DE as long as X is aware of the fontdir path (/usr/share/fonts/local)

Yeah, just checked it out in Fluxbox - same problem.

Also, I'm going to assume that you have not disabled bitmap fonts in fontconfig as explained here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … tmap_fonts
This would cause the Terminus font to be disabled in any fontconfig-aware applications including gnome-terminal.

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# rm 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf

Did it now. Still no Terminus in gnome-terminal...

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-02-18 20:41:38)

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-18 21:02:41

If it matters: http://i.imgur.com/mdWaa.png .

thayer · 2011-02-18 22:39:20

Mr. Alex wrote:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# rm 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
Did it now. Still no Terminus in gnome-terminal...

If you followed those steps then you'll want to undo them; my point was that if you had already disabled bitmap fonts then that could explain why you don't see Terminus (or any other bitmap font).

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-19 11:15:30

It's funny - I undone this change and Terminus appeared in gnome-terminal and other apps. Can I prohobit bitmap fonts in Firefox? I don't need 'em there.

UPD: So the solution is:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d ; rm 70-yes-bitmaps.conf ; rm 70-no-bitmaps.conf ; ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-02-19 15:19:53)

MTK358 · 2011-02-19 13:52:44

Mr. Alex wrote:

Can I prohobit bitmap fonts in Firefox? I don't need 'em there.

What's the point of that? It's not like they somehow take up more space because Firefox knows about them.

Last edited by MTK358 (2011-02-19 13:52:59)

thayer · 2011-02-19 17:14:39

Mr. Alex wrote:

It's funny - I undone this change and Terminus appeared in gnome-terminal and other apps.

Glad you got it sorted out! Arch does not disable bitmap fonts by default, so that means at some point you must have manually disabled bitmap fonts; perhaps when you intially configured your system.

Mr. Alex · 2011-02-20 19:49:26

Thanks for help!

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-02-22 18:17:06)

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