On 03/05/2017 06:41 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
> Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
>
> I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day.
>
> I'm not getting anywhere.
>
> for
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day.
I'm not getting anywhere.
for example:
/usr/share/fonts shows all these:
100dpi corefonts
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote
emerge terminus-font
might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a
framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;)
I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives
me a nice 80x25 terminal ;)
I now
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 02:22:21 Walter Dnes wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote
emerge terminus-font
might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a
framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;)
I like default8x16 better though. At least at
On Sat, 17 May 2014 02:17:17 -0500, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just curious. Just reply and let me know what you use. I think I
need to change mine to something better.
For monospace, Source Code Pro [1] (media-fonts/source-pro).
For proportional, I prefer Helvetica (non-free) but
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 10:28:58 I wrote:
Still hoping to find a font editor though, to replace that zero.
Found one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nafe/postdownload?source=dlp
I've used it to remove the oblique stroke from the zero character and slope
its shoulders. The result's not very
Hello,
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote
The Linux text-console font is also very good.
I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480).
There are 5 lat1 consolefonts...
Hello,
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote:
The Linux text-console font is also very good.
Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it
almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 02:58:26PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
glasses. My question is,
On Monday 19 May 2014 12:29:09 David Haller wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Some time ago I tried to find out where the VC font is defined, with
a view to removing that oblique bar, but I ran out of steam before
finding it. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be
Howdy,
I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks who can't see good, what
font do
140517 Dale wrote:
I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses.
What font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes?
New Century Schoolbook was designed for small children c 1910 :
my eyes are good
On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
with bad eyes? In other
Hello,
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Dale wrote:
I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks
On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote:
The Linux text-console font is also very good.
Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it
almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute myopia, the
other even more acute astigmatism
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote
The Linux text-console font is also very good.
I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480).
There are 5 lat1 consolefonts...
/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz
/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-10.psfu.gz
I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so,
font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents
generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most common
font that doesn't render properly is Ariel. Acroread didn't used to
have any problems with
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote:
Hi,
can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how
to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when
this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is
Hi,
can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how
to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when
this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is
hardly readable. I am normally working in a KDE4 environment.
What kind of font packages are following application use for their interface
(GUI menus)
gv, xpdf, flpsed etc.
Ever since I switch to a new system, I'm having problem view the menu options
in all these packages that deal with postscipt files.
Their menu fonts are small barley readable and
Hi there!
I have some fonts which are not included in the repository.
How can I install them?
Cheers!
On 26 November 2011 08:00, Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there!
I have some fonts which are not included in the repository.
How can I install them?
Cheers!
Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts
Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME}
Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts
That didn't work for me.
Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME}
Could you be more specific?
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:35:15 +0300
Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote:
Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts
That didn't work for me.
Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user
font dirs in ${HOME}
Could you be more specific?
copy the fonts to ~/.fonts/, or
Hi there!
I have some fonts which are not included in the repository.
How can I install them?
Cheers!
Hi all.
Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for
this, but haven't found anything relevant. Can someone please help?
Regards,
On Saturday 04 June 2011 13:54:27 CJoeB wrote:
Hi all.
Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for
this, but haven't found
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:54 on Saturday 04 June 2011, CJoeB did
opine thusly:
Hi all.
Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have*
Hi,
I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
Helvetica:style=Oblique
Helvetica:style=Bold
Helvetica:style=Regular
Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
Nevertheless, they don't show
Marco schrieb:
Hi,
I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
Helvetica:style=Oblique
Helvetica:style=Bold
Helvetica:style=Regular
Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian
Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
Marco schrieb:
Hi,
I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
Helvetica:style=Oblique
Helvetica:style=Bold
Helvetica:style=Regular
Marco schrieb:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian
Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
Marco schrieb:
Hi,
I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
[...]
It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
Nevertheless, they don't
In 58965d8a0904151141u394849ckc7b241dddf686...@mail.gmail.com
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com (Paul Hartman) writes:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de
wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally
In 20090416054846.ga9...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman)
writes:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory
Shearman) writes:
I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Yup it did. A great many thanks!
Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just
curious cause I
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just
curious cause I
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
reasons.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
then it gets garbled again. I am using
In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman)
writes:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory
Shearman) writes:
I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11
You
Hello,
I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font
problems during the installation.
1) the skype menus are blank
2) Eterm giving this error message:
Eterm: Error: Unable to load font
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1.
Falling back on fixed
Sure you installed all the necessary font packages? Also make sure X knows
about them, see /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
2009/1/3 Pat p...@xvalheru.org
Hello,
I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font
problems during the installation.
1) the skype menus are blank
2)
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:43:49 -0700
Ryan Tandy wrote:
David Relson wrote:
Since ATI's drivers are not 7.x
compatible I'm not using them.
Yes, they are.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/ATI_Beats_nVidia_to_Xorg_7_1_Compatible_Drivers
Good news! Following from there to ATI's site, I found
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:57:43 +0200
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote:
[SNIP]
But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X.
However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole
list of Blocked packages, the gist of
David Relson wrote:
Since ATI's drivers are not 7.x
compatible I'm not using them.
Yes, they are.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/ATI_Beats_nVidia_to_Xorg_7_1_Compatible_Drivers
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
On 7/19/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.
Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
font-set.
Since I dont know the initial font
Hi,
I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.
Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
font-set.
Since I dont know the initial font settings of the firefox
application I would be lucky, if one could
On 7/19/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.
Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
font-set.
Since I dont know the initial font
Mark Knecht wrote:
Did you emerge the font set that was in the xorg-x11-7 upgrade HOWTO?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg
# emerge -DuNav font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi
font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \
font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-type1 \
Hi,
After upgrading the nvidia drivers to version 1.0.8756 and
xorg-server to version 1.0.99.901-r1 X starts up but no fonts
are displayed on screen. Sometimes there is a short period I can
see the stuff on screen and then it disappears again.
Downgrading to xorg-server is a pain
Hi,
In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up
as little boxes that say 00 93 and 00 94. In the following quote
the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I
paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes at
the beginning are
On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show upas little boxes that say 00 93 and 00 94. In the following quotethe quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I
paste it into GMail which seems to take care
On 11/11/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show up
as little boxes that say 00 93 and 00 94. In the following quote
the quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the
On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a
long painful process).
On 11/11/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you send me a link or a copy of this email (provided
its not confidential or anything) to see if I can duplicate what you are
seeing?
-Mike
Doing so off line.
Thanks!
- Mark
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
58 matches
Mail list logo
