Re: How to install vga fonts for doseum in Kubuntu?

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

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
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> 
> 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.


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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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