On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I need to admit that the issue "vanished" on my workhorse laptop which is
> nice on one hand but having an explanation would be even nicer. ;-)
> I've now tried the other laptop with the same problem:
> 
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep terminus
> fonts-terminus                                        install
> $ xlsfonts | grep terminus

That might be one of these possibilities:

a) the X configuration (seen with "xset -q") has something amiss with
   the fontpath (see attached example from my Debian/testing).

b) updates to the bitmap font-directories have to be finished using
   mkfontdir (part of xfonts-utils).  I've seen occasional comments
   where package updates didn't work as intended.

Either way, "dpkg -L xfonts-terminus" tells me that the relevant files
are in

        /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc

If xset reports that's in the font path, I'd try (based on the manpage)

        sudo mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc

or (by habit, since long ago it ignored the parameter...)

        cd /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
        sudo mkfontdir

and restart X.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net>
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