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 16:49:18 -0500 Message-ID: <46E85EDE.8050600@mindspring.com> References: <46E73ECA.2080509@mindspring.com> <200709120732.02540.ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> <46E7F887.8050203@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46E7F887.8050203@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Larry Alkoff Cc: Andrew Bird , dosemu I'm very frustrated. I'm trying to use a font called 'vga12x30.pcf.gz` which is a perfect 11" wide x 8.5" high font for dosemu. There have been multiple attempts to set this and other similar fonts. Sometimes it works but mostly not. My procedure is: 0. Starting with a new install of Feisty Fawn Kubuntu with no changes in fonts. 1. Copy the fonts I want to one of the directories specified in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf which contains the allowed directories that will be scanned. /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/X11/fonts /usr/local/share/fonts ~/.fonts Usually I copy the files to /usr/local/share/fonts/dosemu 2. Run sudo mkfontdir on the above directory. 3. Run sudo fc-cache -f -v which scans all the directories in the above 'Font directory list'. I see that fc-cache scans /usr/local/share/fonts/dosemu but lists zero files. Does this depend on the restart of X or the computer? 4. Reboot the computer. 5a. Run xlsfonts |grep vga which will pick up my fonts _if_ they have been registered. Sometimes yes but mostly not. 5b. When I run xdosemu it picks up a smaller font because it cannot find the 12x30 font. I've done a lot of research on the web but cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone help me, very please? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux