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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

how the fonts works?

A RTFineM answer is welcome, just point me in the right direction.

I am looking for a nice looking UCS font for my xterm, following man and tutorials found around I made a Xresources file with:

XTerm*font: -*-fixed-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
XTerm*boldFont: -*-fixed-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*

but still I can't see asian characters, so I checked with pacman and I found the package ttf-freefont.
Downloaded it, it seems have no effect at all.

just to be sure I tried xlsfonts:

$ xlsfont | wc -l
1551

I removed the ttf-freefont:

$ xlsfont | wc -l
1551

What is going on?
What I am once again missing?

Leffe

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 47

Re: how the fonts works?

I don't think the legacy font server supports TTF fonts, my suggestion is to use fontconfig instead.  I believe this will do:

XTerm*faceName: FreeMono
XTerm*faceSize: 20

List your installed fonts recognized by fontconfig with fc-list.

Hmm... you (and me) might be interested in Xterm*faceNameDoublesize as well...