(SOLVED) artwiz fonts and gnome2, kde3

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

I am big fan of artwiz fonts - in my opinion they rock! You desktop gets the style with them - and I really can't live without them. So I was very disapointed when somebody answered on my question: "how to make artwiz fonts working under gnome2 (or with gtk2 apps)?" he said: no way, you can't do it.

But as you can see they work! Not all of them - but for now: snap, glisp, glisp-bold, edges, snap and drift. There are still few to work on but this will be solved too (with your help I hope).

The trick is that the fonts must be seen by as truetype. When I emerged artwiz-fonts - and ran fc-cache -fv I got this:

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

Is it really only me who likes here artwiz fonts?

geez.. I feel like freak :twisted:

[smeagol] · Apprentice Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 152

I like them too.

could you paste what you ahve for snap?

fc-cache didn't generate that for me

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Voffinn · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject:

woha, i like your desktop.

is that fluxbox and what file manager is that ?

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

Window Manager is Fluxbox (devel realease). File manager is nautilus with industrial theme.

About fonts: almost ready I have all of them working with gnome2/gtk2, kde. (and fluxbox ofkoz). Just few more tests and will post them here.
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aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

Oki, after 2 days of hard work I finally fixed all of the fonts.
They work, they look cool and they rock! :wink:

You must download new fonts, install them and restart X.
You should unmerge artwiz-fonts package (fonts there are broken).

Read the instruction how to install.

Download new artwiz fonts here.

Have Fun!
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Kurtz · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 58

Thank you very much for this fine piece of work. I especially like artwiz' terminal fonts, and your patch finally solves my MC-line-drawing troubles.

Thanks!

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aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

If you've changed your configuration like written in README you acctually don't use fonts from artwiz-fonts package anymore.

To check it, you might run xfontsel and select foundry: artwiz, family: edges - as I recall this font didn't show up at all when used from artwiz-fonts package.

And the reason I made the fixes was that the old fonts should not be used, this is the idea behind - to replace broken thing with fixed. :wink:

Besides new fonts support hinting so will work with eg. Fluxbox when you have antialiased turned on.
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|Spiller| · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. I can see the fonts in xfontsel but they are not available in gnome or kde. Any ideas?

EDIT - solved.. they do show up at the end (in gnome)

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

Did you submit a bug report detailing the problem and the changes you took to fix it?

I'm sure many people would like to be able to use these fonts on a GTK2/QT3 system (without having to find this thread first).

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

Right, wanted to to do it but I saw that Alex already did it.

There should be a new build soon as written on bugs.gentoo.org

kewl!
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crimson · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

I downloaded your font package from fluxbox's site aleczapka, and it works in gtk1, but not gtk2. How do I fix this?

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

Did you properly configured fontconfig or xfs? (then run fc-cache, and restarted X)

If they showed up in gtk1 apps it means you probably added entry in your /etc/X11/XF86Config, right?

And what about KDE3? do you have it installed? Can you check?
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d3c3it · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:23 pm Post subject:

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

I used XmBDFEd - a bdf font editor.

You don't need anything for switch2 to work, if you can't see the fonts there you probably didn't configure your fontconfig / xfs.
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crimson · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem as d3c3it. I can't see the fonts in gtk2..(switch2). xfs and everything has been working fine so far.. I did the /etc/init.d/xfs restart, and I've restarted my computer. I ran fc-cache. What do I have to do to get it configured?

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

I've just about lost the last shreds of my sanity. I got the artwiz fonts to work no problem at all, I followed the new README directions, edited XF86Config and /etc/fonts/local.conf. My problem is that half of the fonts will NOT display the ~ character in QT or GTK2 apps. I can set GTK2 (using switch2) and KDE (using kcontrol) to use all the artwiz fonts, no problem. They all show up fine too, no problem. Except for the ~. That's the ONLY character that doesn't display, I tried just about every other character and they all show up fine; it just displays nothing instead of showing a ~. It doesn't even show a blank little ASCII box, it just doesn't display any character at all. If I hit backspace, it "deletes" the mystical invisible ~, but again, nothing shows on the screen.

All my other non-artwiz fonts work just fine and ~ happily displays wherever I type it. Even in a few artwiz fonts, it displays fine, for example smoothansi; the ~ works fine with that. And it's ONLY in QT and GTK2 apps. In a fluxbox window title, ~ shows up fine with the glisp font. In GTK1.2 apps ~ shows up fine with glisp. If I do an "aterm -fn glisp" it looks hideous but ~ shows up fine. The problem is only for about half the fonts. glisp is among the fonts that has this problem, and that's the one I want to use. But it's kind of hard to use it, when Firebird compiled against GTK2 won't show a ~ in URLs, for example. kcharselect shows a blank box where the ~ should be, for example. Not a weird ASCII box like it shows for all the other extended characters, it just shows pure blank nothingness.

I even spent an hour or two learning how to convert .pcf files to .bdf format using fstobdf, and I opened up glisp.bdf in xmbdfed and sure enough, the ~ character is right there. I converted glisp.bdf back into a .pcf file myself and reloaded it with fc-cache -fv and sure enough, no ~ in Konqueror or Gaim or any other QT or GTK2 apps. I tried messing around with locales, setting LC_TYPE and LC_ALL, I tried loading xfs, I tried messing with Xft config files, I tried "nodeadkeys" in my XF86Config file, etc. Still no ~. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it possible we could get a .ttf format of the fonts, maybe? I don't know if that'd help.

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

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