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houkensjtu
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 Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:54 pm Post subject: xlsfonts fail to detect installed font... |
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Hi all!
Recently I installed the famous otf font inconsolata by emerging it.
Then I tried to apply it to my emacs by adding the following line to .Xresources.
emacs.font : inconsolata:style=medium
which gave me the error:
Font 'inconsolata:style=medium' is not defined.
I somehow figured out that emacs font can't be configured by fontconfig library.
Instead it follows the XLFD config. So I tried to find inconsolata by:
xlsfonts
but inconsolata is not there.
Then I tried to manually add the inconsolata font dir by
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata
xset fp rehash
All these finished without any error message but still, I can't find inconsolata
in the output of xlsfonts...
Plz help!!! |
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v_andal
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Are you sure that it does not work? I've performed all of the xset manipulations as you did then run
xlsfonts | grep incon
and I got
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-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
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Besides. According to this http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fonts.html page emacs does understand font names from Fontconfig.
Possibly you should simply try Inconsolata as font name. |
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houkensjtu
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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I re-checked every command and I am sure that xlsfonts
did not give me inconsolata. Really strange...
I checked my Xorg.0.log file and there wasn't any useful
clues.
But I fixed my emacs because I found that I didn't enable
the "xft" USE flag, and after recompile now emacs could
accept fontconfig fonts.
Still I am wondering what's happening behind xlsfonts and why
it can't detect inconsolata... Plz help! |
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houkensjtu
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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btw, the only reason I could figure out is that, the xlsfonts and xfontsel package
on my gentoo was installed manually after xserver is installed.
So I guess there may be some dependency problem ?
And I knew that Xorg will contain much more packages than xserver. Maybe some
necessary packages were missed in xserver?? |
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v_andal
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| I've also installed xlsfonts manually. This program is barely needed these days. Portage is very good at tracing dependencies so, your problem definitely has nothing to do with that. Did you make sure that xset has added your font path? Try to run "xset q" and see what is in your FontPath. I can't offer anything else. As I said, everything works for me, so I can't help with searching. |
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Tractor Girl
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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I have excatly the same problem, both xfontsel and xlsfonts fail to detect any of my fonts ("fixed" is the only one they can see).
I tried xset +fp with paths to my fonts (in both /usr/share/fonts and ~/.fonts) and xset rehash, but this doesn't work.
Before I manually add font paths, xset q shows only:
| Code: | $ xset q
(...)
Font Path:
built-ins
(...) |
I don't know if this is how it should be in Gentoo (in Debian, there're full font paths in there)
BTW
I've also installed xfontsel, xlsfonts and xset manually. |
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v_andal
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| Tractor Girl wrote: | I have excatly the same problem, both xfontsel and xlsfonts fail to detect any of my fonts ("fixed" is the only one they can see).
I don't know if this is how it should be in Gentoo (in Debian, there're full font paths in there)
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In general, the FontPath is populated by providing section Files in xorg.conf. Nowadays people run Xorg without any configuration file, so no wonder that FontPath stays empty. You can try to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/fonts.conf) and put there
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Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "desired/path"
FontPath "desired/path"
EndSection
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Tractor Girl
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-fonts.conf.
xset q now shows the fonts paths but xlsfonts and xfontsel still cannot see them  |
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v_andal
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| Then you have to specify which fonts you are missing. It might be that those fonts are not supported by xlsfonts. BTW, why do you need these programs to work? As far as I know, most (if not all) applications now support Fontconfig. |
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Tractor Girl
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| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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It's working!
I created again /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-fonts.conf
and I run inside all directories with fonts:
| Code: | mkfontdir
mkfontscale |
I need it to setup font in dwm. I know there's xft patch but I try to keep things as minimal as I can (I can't live without bstack patch, though  )
Thank you v_andal  |
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