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#1 2015-02-02 17:08:06

Lonje
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Registered: 2013-11-15
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Can't use X logical font description of a font

So this is a really weird problem I am having. I installed this font: https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree … rceCodePro
And copied all the .otf files to /usr/share/fonts/misc which is a directory in my font path. Now, some applications, like termite (my terminal) and vim can use the font(s). But programs that require a X logical font description can't find it.
It doesn't show up with xfontsel either.

I've appended the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files of the directory I've moved the fonts to, according to the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files in the github repository. I've done fc-cache -vf and I've done xset fp rehash. I'm really at a loss here. Any ideas would be highly appreciated, this is really annoying.

I've also had a look at this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=14854
But I've tried the suggestions there and they didn't help.

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#2 2015-02-02 21:58:46

berbae
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Re: Can't use X logical font description of a font

There is an AUR package for these fonts: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf- … rline-git/
You could use it instead of manually installing the fonts.
Before doing that, undo what you already did in your file system with the source files of the fonts.

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#3 2015-02-06 16:41:48

Lonje
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Registered: 2013-11-15
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Re: Can't use X logical font description of a font

berbae wrote:

There is an AUR package for these fonts: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf- … rline-git/
You could use it instead of manually installing the fonts.
Before doing that, undo what you already did in your file system with the source files of the fonts.

Did that, doesn't work.

I have, however, found a package in extra that contains the Source Code Pro font, which isn't patched for powerline compatibility. This font does show up in xfontsel, but without a preview and software like bar (bar-aint-recursive) is unable to use it. I have no idea what is wrong...

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