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: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:56:01 -0500 Message-ID: <46E94171.1010406@mindspring.com> References: <46E73ECA.2080509@mindspring.com> <200709120732.02540.ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> <46E7F887.8050203@mindspring.com> <46E85EDE.8050600@mindspring.com> <46E8AE71.5060904@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46E8AE71.5060904@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Larry Alkoff Cc: Robert Komar , dosemu Larry Alkoff wrote: > Robert Komar wrote: > >> >> I'm not an expert on fontconfig, but have you checked that X uses the >> /usr/local/share/fonts directory? "xset q" will show you all the >> directories in your font path. They are usually specified in the >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Changing the latter file requires that >> X be restarted. Also, if you're running xdosemu remotely, then you'll >> have to add the fonts on the machine that is displaying the window. >> >> Cheers, >> Rob Komar >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > Thanks very much Robert for your information and especially your advice > about xset. > > My 'xset -q' shows that most of my font directories are in > /usr/share/X11/fonts and subdirectories of that. They are as specified > in xorg.conf. > > This contradicts information in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf which says that > fonts can also be in ~/.fonts, /usr/share/fonts and /usr/local/share/fonts. > > Is it possible that xset -q only lists the directories specified in > xorg.conf? > > I copied all of my vga* fonts into /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc > and ran mkfontdir and fc-cache -f -v. > > I also rebooted even though xorg.conf was not changed. > > However, when dosemu starts it still does not pickup the 12x30 font I > have selected in ~/.dosemurc. All the vga fonts appear in the directory > but the 12x30 font does not appear in fonts.alias. > > I checked two other smaller vgannxnn fonts that worked ok but I'd like > to get the 12x30 working. > > I renamed fonts.alias and fonts.dir and re-ran mkfontdir but fonts.alias > was not created. Is there a special command to do that? > > Thanks for your help. > Sucess! My vga12x30 font loaded after repeated applications of `xset fp rehash' and a manual edit to add the vga12x30 font information to fonts.alias. Thanks Robert. -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux