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laite

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Registered: 2011-06-05

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[Solved] Terminus-font doesn't appear in font dialogs

I'm trying to get terminus-font to show in font selection dialogs.

I have added following as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fonts.conf

Section "Files"
	FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
EndSection

and tried running commands from Wiki

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

Running fc-cache shows that it finds correct folder

fc-cache -vf
(...)
/usr/share/fonts/local: caching, new cache contents: 36 fonts, 0 dirs

Still, I can't see terminus font on font dialogs for any programs, such as xfce4-terminal or gvim. What is going wrong?

Last edited by laite (2013-06-02 10:49:43)

bohoomil

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Re: [Solved] Terminus-font doesn't appear in font dialogs

You have to enable access to bitmap fonts in fontconfig:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .

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laite

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Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 33

Re: [Solved] Terminus-font doesn't appear in font dialogs

You have to enable access to bitmap fonts in fontconfig:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .

Excellent, that fixed it! Thank you.