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krax
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Joined: 29 May 2011
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Location: Troy, MI
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 Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:21 pm Post subject: urxvt and font problem |
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Hello ;
I don't know; maybe it started right after a world upgrade. Now urxvt does not start
| Code: | ~ $ urxvt
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting. |
Well more information :
i emerged it with XFT and lot more look:
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eix rxvt-unicode
[I] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
Available versions: 9.18^t {256-color alt-font-width blink buffer-on-clear fading-colors +focused-urgency +font-styles iso14755 +mousewheel +perl pixbuf secondary-wheel startup-notification unicode3 +vanilla wcwidth xft}
Installed versions: 9.18^t(05:36:51 PM 10/10/2013)(256-color alt-font-width focused-urgency font-styles mousewheel perl startup-notification xft -blink -buffer-on-clear -fading-colors -iso14755 -pixbuf -secondary-wheel -unicode3 -vanilla -wcwidth)
Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Description: rxvt clone with xft and unicode support |
i did urxvt -fn with many fonts in my font list but just urxvt -fn fixed works.
well i don't know what to do and it already took 3 days of me; any idea at this point will be appropriated.
Very much Thanks |
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nemectic
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Joined: 20 Aug 2004
Posts: 182
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| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Try using xset to add the fonts to the directories it looks in ie:
| Code: | | xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminus/ |
That allows me to use the terminus font with urxvt.
| Code: | | urxvt -fn -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |
Of course, it's easier to put the font in .Xresources when you decide which you're happy with.
Is another option! |
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krax
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Location: Troy, MI
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| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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the problem is :
some these fonts that I am trying to use aren't in portage or overlay; so i pasted them in the /usr/local/share/fonts and then i did fc-cache -fv.
Now in the case like me the mkfontdir /usr/local/share/fonts doesn't help because this utility only indexes some font suffixes(1) or X and .ttf fonts isn't one of them
So xlsfonts | grep conso* doesn not find consolas.ttf anywhere in my system. and urxvt -fn consolas returns error
(1)http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds3/mkfontdir.htm
This is in my ~/.xinitrc
| Code: | URxvt.termName: rxvt-unicode
!URxvt.imLocale: fr_FR.UTF-8
URxvt.saveLines: 5000
URxvt.cursorBlink: true
URxvt.foreground: #bcbcbc
URxvt.background: #4682B4
URxvt.cursorColor: #e0e080
URxvt.throughColor: #8080f0
URxvt.highlightColor: #343434
!URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.tintColor: #E6E6E6
URxvt.fading: 40
URxvt.visualBell: true
URxvt.urgentOnBell: true
URxvt.font: -*-Consolas-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.scrollBar_right: false
URxvt.urlLauncher: luakit
URxvt.matcher.button: 3
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
! colors
! link
URxvt.colorUL: #4E9A06
! black
URxvt.color0: #2E3436
URxvt.color8: #555753
! red
URxvt.color1: #CC0000
URxvt.color9: #EF2929
! green
URxvt.color2: #4E9A06
URxvt.color10: #8AE234
! yellow
URxvt.color3: #C4A000
URxvt.color11: #FCE94F
! blue
URxvt.color4: #3465A4
URxvt.color12: #729FCF
! purple
URxvt.color5: #75507B
URxvt.color13: #AD7FA8
! cyan
URxvt.color6: #06989A
URxvt.color14: #34E2E2
! white
URxvt.color7: #D3D7CF
URxvt.color15: #EEEEEC |
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nemectic
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Joined: 20 Aug 2004
Posts: 182
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| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | mkfontscale /usr/share/$FONTDIR
mkfontdir /usr/share/$FONTDIR
xset +fp /usr/share/$FONTDIR |
The above works for me with .ttf fonts.
Obviously replace $FONTDIR with whatever the folder you're trying to load is. |
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