Installing a custom consolefont. [solved]

Sedrik · Last edited by Sedrik on Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:54 am; edited 3 times in total

Hi all

I want to install the proggy clean programming font on my computer. I have never tinkled with fonts in linux so I am quite lost.

The fonts I would like to install is found here, http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download

Thanks in advance

Edit:

See my last post.
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Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

Download the ttf zip file, unpack it and then as root copy the files to /use/share/fonts/TTF. If the dir doesnt exist, create it.
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the "Files" Section add

Sedrik · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:16 am Post subject:

is it possible to install it system wide outside X to? sure the solution works fine to but I like to be as general as possible. =)
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Sedrik · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

*bump
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wsw1wsw2 · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

Why not try framebufeer?
Fb console(fbcon) is not bad.

Sedrik · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:31 am Post subject:

I have framebuffer..

Maybe I should state my wanted effect a little clearer.

I want all my terminals (both inside and outside) to be in that perticular font. The font is not installed as default so I would like to know how I can install it in a simple way (ideally would be so that I could use consolefont in /etc/conf.d/consolefont to change to it).

How can this be done.

Thanks all =)
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swimmer · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

If this font is already in .psf format you can just put him in /usr/share/consolefonts (for the sake of clarity) and use 'setfont <yourfont>' to test it. After that you can put the corresponding line in /etc/conf.d/consolefont ...

In case you only have .bdf files you can have a look at the terminus-font ebuild and the tarfile to see how how can achieve .psf files ...

HTH
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Sedrik · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

I can get a pcf font but not psf of it. :/

However a friend of mine showed me how to install a custom TTF font in X and I now got it working inside of X atleast (wich will have to do then).

Thanks all =)
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Sedrik · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:45 am Post subject:

Hi again guys

After an unfortunate diskcrash I have reinstalled gentoo.

Now I can't seem to get the font back into X this is what I have done.

Downloaded the ttf and put it in /usr/share/fonts/TTF, added the fontpath to xorg.conf

did mkfontdir and mkfontscale on the font in the TTF dir.

run fc-cache -fv to generate the fonts

restarted X and xlsfonts dosen't list my font

Help needed.

Edit:

For people with the same problem check here http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XFS_and_Custom_Fonts
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