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idk n00b
Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: cannot find fixed font |
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I've been trying to solve this problem for several days now, but I've narrowed it down.
I need the font called fixed, but I cannot find it.
What should I emerge to get it, or can anyone give me a link to it so I can download it,
or could maybe someone be kind and send it to me? |
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kfiaciarka Veteran
Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1498 Location: Dobre Miasto, Poland
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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emerge some fonts like corefonts freefonts shrefonts. |
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idk n00b
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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I've done that, but fixed is still missing |
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Dan Veteran
Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1302
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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fixed fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/misc
make sure that is the first font dir in xorg.conf
If you see a bunch of fonts in that dir and you still have that problem then try
Code: | mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/misc |
then try again..
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts |
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idk n00b
Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply, but I don't think that's the problem, becouse I can see cursor.pcf.gz in that directory, but I cannot find fixed.
And
#find /usr | grep fixed
returns nothing. (except some in /usr/share/terminfo/)
As I really only need the fixed font. The file should be named fixed.pcf.gz right?
I've been searching for it, but cannot find it. |
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wynn Advocate
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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idk wrote: | The file should be named fixed.pcf.gz right?
I've been searching for it, but cannot find it. | No, if you look in fonts.alias in that directory, you will find Code: | ! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $
fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 | and if you then look in fonts.dir you should find Code: | 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 | which matches it. You should have 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz. If you haven't then perhaps emerge'ng media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0 again should provide it. _________________ The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
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crowbert Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 140
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:55 pm Post subject: SOLVED: NLS required |
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Code: | USE=nls emerge media-fonts/font-misc-misc |
I've been having the same problem, and had solved it by copying the fonts/misc directory from another system where it worked, even though it had all the same settings and packages. I finally figured out what the cause of the issue is. Without NLS ("natural language support") enabled, fonts install, but don't create the versions for the specific character sets like ISO8859. This is required for the "fixed" font alias to resolve properly.
If you think about it, you want NLS support for all fonts. It's rather the point of fonts to support various character sets that you might want to use. (On the other hand, I generally turn off NLS on applications, as it doesn't usually do anything useful for me in the USA.)
Apparently this hasn't always been the case. The system I copied the fonts didn't have NLS set, and was fine. |
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