Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extra > > terminus fonts haven't become available. > > > > Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available? > > Yes. The

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 04:32, Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > >

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12024-12-12): > Everything else involves fun with fontconfig and/or the X font > server and/or `xset fp` For real X11 fonts, if the package is properly done, the fun with xset is just `xset fp rehash`. The `xlsfonts` to see if the fonts are there without relying on the extra layer of

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have insta

How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the ext

how to use xfonts-intl-chinese

2024-06-21 Thread hlyg
i have installed it for bookworm but firefox can't display Chinese characters on pages at debian.org https://www.debian.org/index.zh-cn.html https://www.debian.org/index.zh-hk.html https://www.debian.org/index.zh-tw.html

xfonts-base problem with cursor font xorg wont start

2006-08-22 Thread mlaks
se package. Why? In fact for gentoo the corresponding error message is refered to in their http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Modular_Xorg wiki page as being solved by: merge font-cursor-misc In debian this is a function of xfonts-base package. So I removed --purge and then reinstalled this p

xfonts-dosemu broken (2)

2006-05-21 Thread Dirk
I installed xfonts-dosemu because I want a font in xterm that does NOT suck when I use something that uses curses... But it can't find the font (it did work before). What must I do to restart some-font-cacheing-something... or what? UPDATE: even dosemu doesn't find the font...

xfonts-dosemu broken

2006-05-21 Thread Dirk
I installed xfonts-dosemu because I want a font in xterm that does NOT suck when I use something that uses curses... But it can't find the font (it did work before). What must I do to restart some-font-cacheing-something... or what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

xfonts-base interaction with fontconfig

2003-02-23 Thread Alan Chandler
6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/12x13ja.pcf.gz seems to most closely match that requested by default since the "ja" additional properties are ignored. This font seems to be in xfonts-base. I have a number of questions. Why is this font installed by xfonts-base? What does the "ja" "Add

Re: getting rid of xfonts-100dpi

2002-12-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Bruce Park([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi. > However, when I try to remove that package: > apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi > apt states that it will also remove x-window-system

Re: getting rid of xfonts-100dpi

2002-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:38:32PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi. > However, when I try to remove that package: > apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi > apt states that it will also remove x-window-system and > w-window

getting rid of xfonts-100dpi

2002-12-01 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi. However, when I try to remove that package: apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi apt states that it will also remove x-window-system and w-window-system-core. I know that these packages should not be removed so what

Re: small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its > > max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications > > (gaim, mozilla,etc).

Re: small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Russell
Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Hi all > > I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its > max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications > (gaim, mozilla,etc). With xfonts-100dpi there are huge characters and > with xfonts-75dpi the

small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications (gaim, mozilla,etc). With xfonts-100dpi there are huge characters and with xfonts-75dpi the characters are small (not enough) but very bad 'qu

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-05-02 Thread Dan Christensen
A reply to several people at once: Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: >> But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone >> recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in >> large sizes? (tru

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone > recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in > large sizes? (truetype/bitmap/whatever) I've searched and > searched and can't find something I like.

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-27 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:16:24 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: >Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: snip >But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone >recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in >large sizes? (truetype/bitmap/whatever) I've searched and >searche

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-27 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone > recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in > large sizes? (truetype/bitmap/whatever) I've searched and > searched and can't find something I like.

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-27 Thread Dan Christensen
Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > uh, how can I make use of xfonts-terminus? I've > installed it but there was no readme or man page to > help out... There's a readme in /usr/share/doc/xfonts-terminus. % xterm -fn terminus-20 works for me. But on a 14 inch

stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-26 Thread Tim locke
uh, how can I make use of xfonts-terminus? I've installed it but there was no readme or man page to help out... I'd like to use it for my reading xterm text.. thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and

Re: xfonts-artwiz and mkfontdir

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Robert Rendler wrote: > Recently when I upgraded a couple of packages mkfontdir got run and all > the fonts provided by xfonts-artwiz dont' seem to get added to > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir properly. For example the line for > snap only shows: &

xfonts-artwiz and mkfontdir

2001-11-29 Thread Robert Rendler
Recently when I upgraded a couple of packages mkfontdir got run and all the fonts provided by xfonts-artwiz dont' seem to get added to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir properly. For example the line for snap only shows: snap.pcf.gz snap Anyone know what could be the problem?

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Jeff
' font. Make sure that the xfonts-base package gets installed to resolve the problem above. It doesn't get included as a dependant package with all the X stuff. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:27, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > >

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:40:03PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:07:50AM +, Pollywog wrote: > > The font packages in unstable are the ones that seem broken and have been > > for at least two months. If I upgrade them, Gnome starts up but instead > >

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > The broken font packages about which I carp are indeed broken. They > cause X to not start because of missing or invalid fonts.alias files. > Surely you have noticed the 5+ mail per week on this very list: Except that most of

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:27, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > > > Er, what? I've installe

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one > of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X wo

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:07:50AM +, Pollywog wrote: > The font packages in unstable are the ones that seem broken and have been > for at least two months. If I upgrade them, Gnome starts up but instead > of seeing alphanumeric characters on the panel (and also on some apps), I > see boxes th

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:25:31 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfont

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011126 21:19]: > On 2001.11.27 00:50 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > >On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > >> The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > > >Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every > >one of t

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.27 00:50 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X won't start, com

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one > of them has end

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I > > lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where character

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X won't start, complaining about a missing 'fixed' font. As far

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose > fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. Dots or boxes? The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been

Re: plex86 problem (where is package xfonts-svga?)

2001-11-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:48:18 +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > bochs: # bochs: Cannot open vga font Have you tried installing the "xfonts-dosemu" package? HTH, Ray -- People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care f

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.26 20:12 Pollywog wrote: On 2001.11.26 20:07 Pollywog wrote: I just found this in my logs but I am not sure what it means: Nov 26 20:08:56 lilypad xfs[1718]: terminating Nov 26 20:08:56 lilypad xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) Nov 26 20:08

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.26 20:07 Pollywog wrote: Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. I am using xfs, and this is in my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7

are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. I am using xfs, and this is in my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100 FontPath "/usr/X11R

plex86 problem (where is package xfonts-svga?)

2001-11-25 Thread Steve Kieu
. Unmapping monitor print buffer. Tearing down VM Closing VM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I suspect that it is because xfonts-svga not installed, but this package is not available. What should I do? thanks in advance = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Get organised for Christmas

xfonts

2001-10-19 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi ! Does anybody know how the default X11 applications font is defined ? I'm talking about the font used for menus (for instance) in most X11 applications (e.g. emacs, xdvi, xfontssel), not the font of any specific application (usually defined in .Xresources). I installed xfonts-jmk and no

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-23 Thread Charles Baker
ED]) [010922 15:14]: > > I have the following xfonts packages installed, > but when I upgrade Woody > > and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in > my Gnome themes, the > > Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Instead of > characters, I see tiny blocks > > cons

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Hall Stevenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > * Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 15:14]: > > I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody > > and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the > > Gnome pa

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 15:14]: > I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody > and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the > Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Instead of characters, I see tiny blocks > consisting of d

xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Pollywog
I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Instead of characters, I see tiny blocks consisting of dots. hi xfonts-100dpi 4.0.3-4100 dpi fonts for X hi

Attn: xfonts package maintainer (was Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade)

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the > first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the > fonts ... They're all replaced by strange little symbols, which > I assume means the characters is unavailable. Can the package maintainer comment on this ?? It's becoming f

Re: setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts

2001-08-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts Date: Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:03:13AM +0200 In reply to:Florian Fritze Quoting Florian Fritze([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, how can I set the fonts-75dpi fonts as the default xfonts. If I > install the fonts-100 packag

Re: setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts

2001-08-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Florian Fritze wrote: > Hi, how can I set the fonts-75dpi fonts as the default xfonts. If I > install the fonts-100 package, the configuration is set to 100dpi, but I > want to keep 75dpi as the default. If I deinstall the fonts-100 package, > the default is 75dpi, but gimp needs

Re: setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Check your /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc There is a line that says -dpi 100 I would assume that changing that to 75 would fix things the way you want them. --mike On 09 Aug 2001 11:03:13 +0200, Florian Fritze wrote: > Hi, how can I set the fonts-75dpi fonts as the default xfonts. If I > insta

setting fonts-75dpi as the default xfonts

2001-08-09 Thread Florian Fritze
Hi, how can I set the fonts-75dpi fonts as the default xfonts. If I install the fonts-100 package, the configuration is set to 100dpi, but I want to keep 75dpi as the default. If I deinstall the fonts-100 package, the default is 75dpi, but gimp needs also 100dpi fonts. How can I change this that I

[bgjestva@uncultured.org: xfonts-base]

2001-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfonts-base Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:23:05 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm having trouble with X on woody/testing: Fatal server error: could not open default fon

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Branden Robinson
of people who tell me > Branden> that because *THEIR* system is broken, I need to add a > Branden> DEPENDENCY on xfonts-base to all the X servers, or to > Branden> xserver-common. > > I might be on the wrong foot here... > > However, you already have a

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Brian May
need to add a Branden> DEPENDENCY on xfonts-base to all the X servers, or to Branden> xserver-common. I might be on the wrong foot here... However, you already have a program that checks /etc/XF86Config for errors before xdm starts (gdm doesn't use it, so I can't check)

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > I'd very much appreciate hearing these suggestions. Please DON'T send them > directly to me; send them to debian-x@lists.debian.org instead so they can > be considered and discussed by a number of people. I think this may actually soon stop being a FAQ. The reason why is

RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Branden Robinson
In a stressful time like freeze, it is really aggravating to deal with the nonstop trickle of people who tell me that because *THEIR* system is broken, I need to add a DEPENDENCY on xfonts-base to all the X servers, or to xserver-common. This is WRONG. Utterly, completely, and totally WRONG

Re: XFonts?

2000-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
This works. It REALLY slows down the performance. Is there anything else that may help to speed it back up? Robert Thus spake sgaerner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had the same strange look when I used an ATI Rage 128 based > graphicsadapter. When I > switched the hardware acceleration off, the

Re: XFonts?

2000-02-12 Thread sgaerner
I had the same strange look when I used an ATI Rage 128 based graphicsadapter. When I switched the hardware acceleration off, the fonts became "normal". In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config there could be an entry like # "accel" off I uncommented this line an X11 works normal. bye Sven "Robert

XFonts?

2000-02-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
I finally got XF86 from the frozen Debian (3.3.6 I believe) installed and actually working right. When I start it up the graphics all look right, but all the text is garbase. My prompt looks like "|||\| ^" and such. Definitely nothing that looks like text. Even if I try to bring up the

Xfonts-75dpi 3.3.4?

1999-11-15 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Please, Where I find the packages .deb xfonts-75dpi and 100dpi version 3.3.4? -- Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.871 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamos catalogar o Linux no Brasil?: http://members.xoom.com/riba/ http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/5560/

xfonts-100dpi upgrade

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I just did an update from potato... One of the packages it tried to update was the xfonts-100dpi, but it kept giving an error about incorrect md5sum? I marked the package held, and was able to complete the update for the remaining packages. I downloaded from http.us.debian.org. Mike

xfonts-75dpi

1999-02-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
After installing the Xfonts-75dpi and the xfonts-100dpi packages, I've been getting errors on running mkfontdir. The tail end of running mkfontdir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi is at the end of the message... does anyone have an idea how to get mkfontdir to process these fonts? --Eva