infinality-bundle: good looking fonts made (even) easier

SpaceCadet · 2015-12-06 19:30:52

@bohoomill just wanted to confirm that the latest package update (freetype2-infinality-ultimate 2.6.2-4) solves the issue with Chrome/Chromium. Thanks!

bohoomil · 2015-12-07 00:44:39

madigens wrote:

Hi!

Hi madigens, nice to read you! ;-) Please, see this thread: speed-up and freetype integration. I believe mviikki16 and goddesse will be happy to share their knowledge and skills with you and the freetype team.

@SpaceCadet Sounds great: thank you, too!

bbarcher · 2015-12-09 11:09:42

Hello!

With a fresh updated installation of Arch and the repos added to /etc/pacman.conf

[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch

[infinality-bundle-multilib]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/$arch

[infinality-bundle-fonts]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/fonts

I get the following errors:

#pacman -Sy  
error: infinality-bundle-fonts: key "AE6866C7962DDE58" is unknown
error: key "AE6866C7962DDE58" could not be looked up remotely
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community                                                                      3.2 MiB  3.96M/s 00:01 [############################################################] 100%
 infinality-bundle                                                              9.2 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
 infinality-bundle.sig                                                        287.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
error: infinality-bundle: key "AE6866C7962DDE58" is unknown
error: key "AE6866C7962DDE58" could not be looked up remotely
error: failed to update infinality-bundle (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: failed retrieving file 'infinality-bundle-multilib.db' from bohoomil.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to update infinality-bundle-multilib (unexpected error)
 infinality-bundle-fonts is up to date
error: database 'infinality-bundle' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'infinality-bundle-fonts' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr
==> ERROR: Remote key not fetched correctly from keyserver.

What did I do wrong? I've installed several Arch...es in the past and never had such problems.

runical · 2015-12-09 11:27:20

Seems you didn't sign the key. See the first post here and the wiki [1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … icial_keys

EDIT: Whoops, I read all over the failed command. The wiki has a note about that. See the link I gave you and execute dirmngr as root to make that work.

Last edited by runical (2015-12-09 11:30:13)

bbarcher · 2015-12-10 19:11:23

runical wrote:

Seems you didn't sign the key. See the first post here and the wiki [1].
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … icial_keys
EDIT: Whoops, I read all over the failed command. The wiki has a note about that. See the link I gave you and execute dirmngr as root to make that work.

Thank you for your reply. That allowed me to sign the key. But I still get errors at update

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58
gpg: key 962DDE58: public key "bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2016-01-22

# pacman-key -f 962DDE58
pub   rsa2048/962DDE58 2013-04-22
      Key fingerprint = A924 4FB5 E93F 11F0 E975  337F AE68 66C7 962D DE58
uid         [ unknown] bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>
sub   rsa2048/C83B4AD8 2013-04-22

# pacman-key --lsign-key 962DDE58
  -> Locally signing key 962DDE58...
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   6  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1  valid:   6  signed:  64  trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 5m, 0f, 0u
gpg: depth: 2  valid:  64  signed:   6  trust: 64-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2016-01-22

# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                         121.4 KiB   243K/s 00:01 [############################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                       1820.0 KiB   362K/s 00:05 [############################################################] 100%
 community                                                                      3.1 MiB   225K/s 00:14 [############################################################] 100%
 infinality-bundle                                                              9.2 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
 infinality-bundle.sig                                                        287.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'infinality-bundle-multilib.db' from bohoomil.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to update infinality-bundle-multilib (unexpected error)
 infinality-bundle-fonts                                                      125.9 KiB   277K/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
 infinality-bundle-fonts.sig                                                  287.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Last edited by bbarcher (2015-12-10 19:11:54)

runical · 2015-12-10 20:56:01

bbarcher, just a quick question. Do you by any chance run a 32-bit system? You can check this with uname -m. If it returns x86_64, you are running 64-bit. If it returns i686, you are running 32-bit. In the 32-bit case, pacman tries to download the repository from http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/i686, which returns a 404 because it doesn't exist. This is the case because you do not need multilib on a 32-bit system.

jmayniac · 2015-12-10 23:42:57

I must be doing something completely wrong, because my infinality-settings.sh is being completely ignored. I installed Infinality-bundle from the repo bohoomil setup and everything seems ok, I have the new rendering. I then copied over infinality-settings.sh from /usr/share/doc/freetype2-infinality-ultimate into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/. I uncommented and changed the line export INFINALITY_FT="ultimate3" to export INFINALITY_FT="osx" just to see the difference and restarted. Upon restart, nothing changed the fonts look exactly the same. I've tried changing other settings in this file and nothing seems to matter, no changes take effect.

Ropid · 2015-12-11 00:22:43

Can you check if the environment variable is showing up for a shell with "env | grep ^INFI"?

You can inspect the environment of a running process like this to see if maybe your desktop hasn't loaded the environment variable:

sudo cat /proc/$(pgrep -o firefox)/environ | tr '\0' '\n'

SpaceCadet · 2015-12-14 00:49:58

@Ropid that's a cool trick ... I didn't know you could do that!

@jmayniac I believe infinality-settings.sh (or anything in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/) gets ignored if you have your own custom .xinitrc.

wildfowl · 2015-12-14 16:22:42

Just wondering if there were any suggestions on how to avoid color fringing on many of the typeface glyphs? Many characters, particularly 'm' are verging towards the red on a black background.

NeoTheFox · 2015-12-15 12:20:10

Since ABI is updated can you please update Java as well?

yuyquan · 2015-12-29 10:29:21

bohoomil wrote:

Well, the Wiki covers the entire DIY procedure and assumes you have installed Infinality fontconfig settings and runtime file as they are available in the AUR. This is not a case here at all. infinality-bundle is meant to be installed in a single step that should give the user what their want of the box, without obligatory user intervention. (See the user notes above for details. It answers the majority of possible questions.) It doesn't come with all the settings but mine, so there is really nothing to write about but 'issue pacman -U foo.$arch.tar.xz and enjoy'. If the project catches up, I will surely modify the Wiki article so that it offers yet another, and hopefully the easiest, option of getting a working Infinality setup. Now I'm not really sure what I should write there as using my packages makes nearly all steps covered there, well, not needed anymore.

Yo bro is this a thing? Can we get a "pacman -S infinality-bundle" yet?

This is 2015, breaking 2016

adrianx · 2015-12-29 11:00:17

yuyquan wrote:

Yo bro is this a thing? Can we get a "pacman -S infinality-bundle" yet?
This is 2015, breaking 2016

See page 1 - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098 and look at the date.

yuyquan · 2015-12-31 12:50:43

adrianx wrote:

yuyquan wrote:
Yo bro is this a thing? Can we get a "pacman -S infinality-bundle" yet?
This is 2015, breaking 2016
See page 1 - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098 and look at the date.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But I had to

echo "[infinality-bundle]" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf;  echo 'Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch' | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf;  sudo pacman-key -r 962DDE58; sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 962DDE58; sudo pacman -Syyu; sudo pacman -S infinality-bundle

And I was wondering why I had to go through all that trouble instead of just

sudo pacman -S infinality-bundle

I feel like that wasn't explained. At least in the link you sent me.

runical · 2015-12-31 13:08:48

yuyquan wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong. But I had to
echo "[infinality-bundle]" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf;  echo 'Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch' | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf;  sudo pacman-key -r 962DDE58; sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 962DDE58; sudo pacman -Syyu; sudo pacman -S infinality-bundle
And I was wondering why I had to go through all that trouble instead of just
sudo pacman -S infinality-bundle
I feel like that wasn't explained. At least in the link you sent me.

That is because this is a separate, unofficial repository. It needs to be set up before you can use it. Such is life when using community projects.

cfr · 2016-01-02 01:45:31

Can somebody tell me if I've missed something? I no longer seem to have any manual pages for the fontconfig utilities (fc-match etc.). I'm sure that I used to have these or, if not, certainly I've had more information about the utilities than I can currently find. At any rate, is there an additional package I need to install to get the manual pages?

Or the user manual if that's more appropriate. I don't have e.g. /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

Last edited by cfr (2016-01-02 01:48:32)

Ropid · 2016-01-03 22:56:24

cfr wrote:

Can somebody tell me if I've missed something? I no longer seem to have any manual pages for the fontconfig utilities (fc-match etc.). I'm sure that I used to have these or, if not, certainly I've had more information about the utilities than I can currently find. At any rate, is there an additional package I need to install to get the manual pages?
Or the user manual if that's more appropriate. I don't have e.g. /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

There's man-pages in the "fontconfig" package, but there aren't man-pages in "fontconfig-infinality-ultimate". I wiped pacman's cache a while ago and I don't have any old fontconfig-infinality-ultimate file versions to look at to see if there were man pages in those.

murr · 2016-01-03 23:47:23

There were man pages in fontconfig-infinality-ultimate-2.11.1-29 but they have vanished from 2.11.1-30.

cfr · 2016-01-07 04:30:57

I thought I used to have them. Is this a bug, do you think?

I rely heavily on man pages, so if these are no longer included it would be a major downside of using infinality for me just because it would no longer be easy to maintain the system in the state to which I have become accustomed!

Last edited by cfr (2016-01-07 04:32:11)

easysid · 2016-01-10 14:02:02

Quick question:

I have installed the infinality-bundle, and ibfonts-meta-base packages. I wanted to know that if I were to now install more fonts, can I place them in ~/.fonts or do they have to come from the ib fonts repo and installed via pacman?

raghap · 2016-01-20 03:20:42

Do you guys have any idea what causes certain websites to be helvetica? This forum isn't for example, but Facebook and Github are. I don't know exactly what's going on but the only thing I feel like I can blame is Infinality since it handles the font stuff.

x33a · 2016-01-20 06:51:03

@raghap, web fonts perhaps.

Voyager · 2016-02-05 23:42:57

@raghap, @raghap
it's not the web fonts, it's a problem of the aliases in your .conf files
I'm almost sure that there are missing "replacement" for needed fonts.

Last edited by Voyager (2016-02-05 23:43:51)

f34_T · 2016-02-07 13:30:38

Hi. I've just installed infinality-bundle, infinality-bundle-multilib and ibfonts-meta-base. Is this all I need? I just want to use default settings.
Or should I make changes to or copy infinality-settings.sh file? It's not present in
/etc/profile.d/
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
Thank you.

easysid · 2016-02-08 10:37:46

The monospace font on https://wiki.python.org/moin/Vim look a bit off.

Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4nGlhyE.png

The inspector shows the font as Courier Prime

Information

~ $  fc-match 'Courier Prime'
Courier Prime.ttf: "Courier Prime" "Regular"

 ~ $  fc-presets check
 [ combi ] is not set 
 :: Run <fc-presets help> for more information.

 5 symlinks found.
 The active preset seems to be [ free ].
 Checking symlinks now...

30-metric-aliases-free.conf is OK
37-repl-global-free.conf is OK
60-latin-free.conf is OK
65-non-latin-free.conf is OK
66-aliases-wine-free.conf is OK


 ~ $  pacman -Qsq infinality
cairo-infinality-ultimate
fontconfig-infinality-ultimate
freetype2-infinality-ultimate
ibfonts-meta-base
ttf-courier-prime-ib
ttf-dejavu-ib
ttf-heuristica-ib
ttf-liberation-ib
ttf-noto-fonts-ib
ttf-symbola-ib

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