[Solved] xfontsel: can't find teminus/dina

rent0n · 2010-04-09 10:35:44

Hi,

I've just installed terminus and dina fonts and I would really need to use them in my urxvt and in my tiling wm.
The problem is they don't show up in xfontsel so I can't get that string like *-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*- (this one is clearly invented) to put in my .Xdefaults / config file.

I read somewhere that I would need to add the font path to my xorg.conf but I don't have a xorg.conf at all so I really don't know what to do.

Thank you for any help!

Last edited by rent0n (2010-04-09 18:34:33)

snakebite · 2010-04-09 10:54:32

I don't think you need to add a font path, I haven't done this is either of my machines and terminus works fine in both urxvt and awesome (my wm).

cat .Xdefaults | grep font

URxvt.font:                xft:Terminus:pixelsize=9,xft:Kochi Mono

cat .config/awesome/theme.lua | grep font

theme.font           = "terminus 9"

mikesd · 2010-04-09 11:03:44

There are a couple of different font systems used in X. XFT (fontconfig) and the older system. xfontsel uses the old style font system.

I use:

xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts

in my .xinitrc to add font paths to X. This should fix xfontsel.

Check the wiki[1] for full details.

[1] - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

FallenWizard · 2010-04-09 13:51:10

Add these lines into Xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
EndSection

rent0n · 2010-04-09 18:33:52

Thanks everyone.

I managed to insert terminus and dina to xfontsel by using mikesd's method:

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local

This allowed me to use the terminus font in my i3 config file.

However, urxvt didn't like the xfontsel way of adding terminus (while it was okay for 'fixed'), so I had to use what snakebite suggested:

urxvt.font: xft:terminus:pixelsize=12

@FallenWizard: as I wrote above I don't have a xorg.conf file.

Last edited by rent0n (2010-04-09 18:34:12)

archman-cro · 2010-05-05 07:48:25

mikesd wrote:

xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts

I have this in xinit too, but isn't there a way to include /usr/share/fonts/local (for terminus) in the "default fonts path" or something? (without xorg.conf file, sure)

orschiro · 2010-05-05 09:03:21

^When you're using this line in .xinitrc why should there be then a need to use xorg.conf?

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[Solved] xfontsel: can't find teminus/dina

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