[SOLVED] urxvt and local fonts

[cubancigar11]

Hi!

I have installed inconsolata in my home directory (~/.fonts). Is there a way I can use it with urxvt? Please guide me step by step - should I setup some startup script to do xset +fp? Or if it is possible to do without it? Will it be a better option to copy my fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts directory? If so, what should I add in xorg.conf to have it detected?

[v_andal]

Have you checked this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-917820-start-0.html ?

To begin with, check if your ~/.fonts is still checked by the system. See if it is present in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

[boerKrelis]

You can use fonts with urxvt in two ways.

Simple:

[cubancigar11]

[v_andal]

Well. There are 2 systems for providing fonts.

The old one provides fixed width fonts. It is configured via Files section of xorg.conf. By default it always adds some directories, which you see reported by 'xset q'. The command xlsfonts can be used to see available fonts and command xfontsel can be used to select some font.

The new one can handle both types of fonts, though by default it hides fixed width fonts. This system is configured via /etc/fonts/fonts.conf To see available fonts one uses fc-list command. This system is ugly (from my perspective). It attempts to be very user friendly, so it is kind of Microsoft in Linux As result of this friendliness there's no guarantee that you'd get the font you requested. The system may substitute it with one, that it believes suits you better. Well, sorry for rambling.

Anyway. By default urxvt works only with old system. To work with new system, you have to compile it with xft USE flag. Now, inconsolata provides fonts.dir so it should be fairly easy to use it with old system. Just add your directory to xorg.conf file (not /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). And then use '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1' as font for your URxvt*font in .Xresources. Well, if you don't want to restart your X, then you may want to use command
'xset +fp /home/my/.fonts/inconsolata' or whatever is appropriate path. This command can be placed in start up script if you don't want to put this directory into xorg.conf.

Though I have to admit, that even though I can see the font name, my application can't use this font. Maybe it will be better for you. Otherwise you'll have to try new system, and there you'll never know which font you actually got. At least in my case, I got some ugly looking blurry font. Oh well, I may have some wrong configuration in /etc/fonts/

[cubancigar11]

Thanks! That helped. Instead of adding /usr/local/share/fonts, I needed to ad /usr/local/share/fonts/inconsolata in the xorg.conf file. I compiled urxvt with xft useflag and now I am able to use both methods to switch fonts.