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tier

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Registered: 2006-09-29

Posts: 13

can not see terminus font with xfontsel

Hi. I've found out this problem was mentioned a couple of times here but there is still no working advice to solve it
Arch 0.8, Icewm. I have installed the package with terminus font but it isn't available to select with xfontsel. But for example I can see and select this font in opera's select font dialog.  I tryed to do:
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-bitmaps.conf
but it doesn't work neither.

What can I do to solve it?
Thnx

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: can not see terminus font with xfontsel

Is the fontpath set correctly in .xorg.conf?

tier

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Registered: 2006-09-29

Posts: 13

Re: can not see terminus font with xfontsel

My nvidia-xconfig generated the xorg.conf file absolutely without font paths. And most of fonts was visible with xfontsel.
After that I tryed to add a single line with path to directory where terminus font installed but X could not start after that.
Now a added ALL actual font paths to xorg.conf and X started and I even managed to see terminus in xfontsel. Thanks.
But question is still on - why I have to set font paths in xorg.conf while freetype2 SHOULD handle them all - and bitmap ones too!

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: can not see terminus font with xfontsel

I assume that's because freetype is a font engine and is loaded via xorg as a module.  The Fontpath(s) set what fonts are available to xorg and therefore freetype.