From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Alkoff Subject: Re: How to install vga fonts for doseum in Kubuntu? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:32:39 -0500 Message-ID: <46E7F887.8050203@mindspring.com> References: <46E73ECA.2080509@mindspring.com> <200709120732.02540.ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200709120732.02540.ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Andrew Bird Cc: dosemu Andrew Bird wrote: > Hi Larry, > I'm sure it's a typo, but you are grepping for 10x30 when the font you're > interested is 12x30. :-) > > > Best regards, > > > Andrew > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 02:20:10 Larry Alkoff wrote: >> Running Feisty Fawn Kubuntu. Prior to Feisty, I had dosemu working with >> my favorite font vga12x30.pcf.gz in >> /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts. >> >> My fonts line in ~.dosemurc is: >> $_X_font = "vga12x30" # The biggest 11" wide x 8.5"high >> >> Now it doesn't seem to work. >> >> I have tried: >> sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts >> sudo fc-cache -f -v >> sudo xset fp rehash >> xlsfonts |grep 10x30 with no result. >> >> I also tried making a soft link with: >> >> sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/Xfonts /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts >> and repeating the commands. >> >> What do I need to do for xdosemu to recognize my fonts? >> >> Larry Hello Andrew. Yes it was a typo and I have actually tried to grep both ways 12x30 (correct) and 10x30. I have the feeling that a step is being left out. There is a lot of information in /etc/fonts that I don't understand how to manipulate including: root@kinda fonts # ls conf.avail conf.d fonts.conf fonts.dtd Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux