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blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

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What's the name of the Terminus font file?

Hi there,

I want to set my aterm's font type to the Terminus font, but I can't find the font name / font file on my system, although it's definitely installed (I can choose it in Konsole).
When I try a "aterm -fn terminus" I get a >>aterm: can't load font "terminus"<<

So what's the correct identifier here or where can I look it up?

TIA,
Blackhole

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manx

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From: Staffordshire, England

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

Should be terminus-font

Last edited by manx (2009-03-08 14:12:17)

toad

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

toad@deskarch 755\8 ~ > pacman -Ss terminus
community/terminus-font 4.28-1
    A superb, monospace bitmap font (for X11 and console)

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blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

Hm, I had already tried that:

schorsch@archie:~$ aterm -fn terminus-font
aterm: can't load font "terminus-font"

Any other ideas?

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Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

What you want is
xlsfonts | grep terminus

and

xfontsel

Note that you can replace a lot with *, so aterm -fn '*terminus*medium*-14-*' is enough.

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

This is what I have in my rc.conf:
CONSOLEFONT="Lat2-Terminus16.psfu.gz"
This font is present in the default install of Arch.

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

My system couldn't find the terminus font until I added FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Then log out and back in again.

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Procyon

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Re: What's the name of the Terminus font file?

You don't have to log out, just this:
xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

You can use rehash when it is already in FontPath and you put new fonts in there.

And add it to xorg.conf's FontPath too of course.