[SOLVED] Difficulty installing .pcf font

jasonwryan · 2010-01-09 07:48:57

I have moved the .pcf.gz to /usr/share/fonts/misc (which is in my xorg.conf), changed ownership to root and reloaded my font cache as per the fonts wiki, logged out and in and it still doesn't show up in xfontsel...

Is there anything in particular I need to do with .pcf fonts - or should it just be a standard manual install?

Last edited by jasonwryan (2010-01-09 09:23:55)

jasonwryan · 2010-01-09 09:23:30

Solved by doing th following:

xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/misc
xset -fp rehash

You can check the font has been added with

xlsfonts | grep fontname

This forces X server to rescan all the fonts.dir files, thereby updating the new fonts...

Found here: http://gobase.org/dict/JIS/helponXfonts.html

Arch Linux

#1 2010-01-09 07:48:57

[SOLVED] Difficulty installing .pcf font

#2 2010-01-09 09:23:30

Re: [SOLVED] Difficulty installing .pcf font

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