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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Terminus font causing grief

Right, I've installed xserver-terminus-fonts from tehdely, and done cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc && mkfontdir as well as xset fp rehash. Then I've edited .Xdefaults to include urxvt*font: ter-124b, but no joy; urxvt won't run. I've even extracted all the .pcf.gz's in the terminus directory, and still nothing. I've added the FontPath to xorg.conf... so what could be up? :?:

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Terminus font causing grief

urxvt*font: xft: terminus:bold

Try the above.

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Terminus font causing grief

Yeah, thanks man, worked like a charm; I didn't realise it was an aliased one.

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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: Terminus font causing grief

i can't install the non-xft terminus font installed the terminus-font package through yaourt but a

urxvt*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-150-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

in .Xdefaults leads me to a non-opening-because-a-font-not-found URxvt

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: Terminus font causing grief

I had this problem before, and I don't really remember how I fixed it.

pacman -Ql terminus-font shows a whole bunch of files in /usr/share/fonts/local.
My /etc/xorg.conf has this line in the "Files" section:
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local"
Does yours? That might be the problem: you have to tell x.org where the font is.

Also: first check if the terminus font shows up in the 'xfontsel' utility. If it does, it's not a path problem, but probably because you specified the font-string wrong.

Last edited by peets (2008-12-05 04:38:26)