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KylieGS

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Registered: 2018-02-19

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Font matching and bitmap scaling

Hey, so I'm setting up my laptop with a very terminal based interface (i3, using vim as the editor etc) and I've run into the issue of fonts.

I'm doing this mainly for the learning experience so please bear with with me

So say I have a bitmap font I've downloaded. How do I install it? Where should it go? Is it somewhere I setup like I do with xrdb?

Also, how do I scale said bitmap font up (so it used multiple screen pixels per bitmap pixel) I've tried with xft:(font from aur):pixelsize=10 and :size=10 but neither of them change the scale and the font remains so tiny it won't even render properly

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Font matching and bitmap scaling

So say I have a bitmap font I've downloaded. How do I install it?

Fonts#Manual_installation

KylieGS

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Registered: 2018-02-19

Posts: 53

Re: Font matching and bitmap scaling

So say I have a bitmap font I've downloaded. How do I install it?

Fonts#Manual_installation

I've tried that, the bdf files are ~/.local/share/fonts

fc-list still cant seem to see them

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Font matching and bitmap scaling

Is the system using /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf ?

KylieGS

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Registered: 2018-02-19

Posts: 53

Re: Font matching and bitmap scaling

I don't think so but I'm not sure how to confirm

loqs

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Re: Font matching and bitmap scaling

Check if there is a link from /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf to /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf