HELP - fontconfig problems

Moriah · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:12 pm Post subject: HELP - fontconfig problems

I just installed:

Logicien · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:49 pm Post subject:

You can use Xfontsel to choose your font and pass the result to ctwm if there is an option to personnalise the fonts at command line or in a file configuration. Maybe you just need to install the missing fonts for ctwm work properly.

Moriah · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:35 pm Post subject:

Yes, I would like to install the missing fonts, but how does one do that, given a goofy font specifier instead of a package name?
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Logicien · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:45 pm Post subject:

You must look for adobe helvetica and misc fonts in the Portage tree. Xorg have his own fonts and misc fonts are part of them.
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Moriah · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:02 am Post subject:

So concerning the adobe:

Logicien · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 8:59 pm Post subject:

Maybe adobe helvetica fonts are part of a package of Microsoft fonts, emerge those Microsoft fonts if possible. For more liberty you should be able to impose the fonts that ctwm use according to the installed fonts, look this way too.
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Moriah · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:27 pm Post subject:

I'm getting somewhat desperate to get this solved. My fonts in the VM are all messed up after to much "try this and see if it will work" style exploratory hacking. I have other "real" machines that work great. Isn't there some way to just copy all the font stuff from one of them to the VM and get things working the same way?

Thanks in advance, and I realize that the holiday season is not the time people like to spend answering help requests. I also realize some of you (the more senior ones) are likely battling the SolarWinds" problem, which is obviously more important.

:mrgreen:

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cruzki123 · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 262

I think this entry of the forum has a relevant answer to your question.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1013962-start-0.html

See also

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/504127/gentoo-is-missing-x-bitmapped-fonts-helvetica-times-georgia

Also this

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-557077-start-0.html

Good luck.

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:50 am Post subject:

That last link you provided points out that the tightvnv server ignores the X11 font configuration and has font paths hard coded into the shell script that is used to start the vncserver.

In my case, I am running a virtual machine -- Oracle's VirtualBox -- on a windoze-10 host, with gentoo as a guest. I recall that vmware's way of implementing the screen for a virtual machine also uses vnc, although it is not explicitly made visible to the average user.

Maybe virtualbox does something similar? :idea:

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Moriah · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:21 pm Post subject:

The frustration is extreme! :!:

I run twm, and it works fine. But I like ctwm. It works fine on all my other systems, but this brand new gentoo system will not run it. The problem is it can't find a needed font. It finds it on several other machines just fine.

Here's what happens: