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kens

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Registered: 2011-11-11

Posts: 29

Can't use artwiz-fonts in urxvt

For some reason, I can't get any fonts from artwiz-fonts working with urxvt. I did

$ sudo pacman -S artwiz-fonts

And it installed fine. Then I changed the line in .Xdefaults to

URxvt*font: xft:lime

But when I open urxvt it just shows the ugly default font. I have tried doing this with the fonts lime and snap and they both don't work, but I can change the font to things like Droid Sans Mono. What can I do to fix it?

EDIT:

Also, when I restart subtle, I get this error in the console:

 Fontconfig warning: Directory/file mtime in the future. New fonts may not be detected

Does that have anything to do with it, and if so, how do I fix it?

Last edited by kens (2011-11-14 04:53:03)

stlarch

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From: hell

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 1,265

Re: Can't use artwiz-fonts in urxvt

Try

urxvt*font:              -artwiz-lime-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

kens

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Registered: 2011-11-11

Posts: 29

Re: Can't use artwiz-fonts in urxvt

stlarch, when I try that and I try to start urxvt, I get this error:

urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

And urxvt doesn't start.

Last edited by kens (2011-11-14 13:51:22)

Reki

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Registered: 2011-10-27

Posts: 59

Re: Can't use artwiz-fonts in urxvt

I remember not being able to open urxvt because of some font problems. This fixed it for me (I added it to my .xinitrc):

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

Not sure if this'll work though, and you may have to change the directory to something like /usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts/.

Last edited by Reki (2011-11-14 13:59:55)

kens

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Registered: 2011-11-11

Posts: 29

Re: Can't use artwiz-fonts in urxvt

Wow thanks Reki, that helped! (I did change the directory to /usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts.) However, when I change

-artwiz-lime-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

to

-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

It quits working again. Is there a special way of generating those names or something?

EDIT:

No, it's not the names, it's just that snap doesn't work, but others like anorexia, glisp, etc. work fine. I wonder what's wrong with snap?

Last edited by kens (2011-11-14 14:15:04)