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 example:
> /usr/share/fonts shows all these:
>
> 100dpi corefonts encodingsinconsolata-hellenic misc util
> 75dpi cyrillic inconsolata liberation-fonts urw-fonts
>
> Probably going at this ass backwards but it seems just about none of
> thes are accessabel to an xterm
>
> xlsfonts shows many `misc fixed' fonts that can be loaded into xterm.
>
> But I have not found how to load any of the others.
>
> For example: fc-list shows a whole different list of fonts.
> I tried several and none of those were loadable into xterm.
>
> Trying by there names inside the directories above I have found none
> are recognized by xterm
>
> Looking at the fonts.dir files .. at least most of those names look
> familiar in the format I'm used to such as this:
>
>-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
> That one is found with xlsfonts.
>
> Something like this from inconsolata fonts.dir file:
>
>-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
>
> xterm -fn -misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> xterm: cannot load font
> '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1'
> xterm: cannot load font
> '-misc-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1'
>
> trying the other kind of names there:
>
>xterm -fn Inconsolata-Regular.ttf
> xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf'
> xterm: cannot load font 'Inconsolata-Regular.ttf'
>
> Leave it at that for the moment...
>
> googling for hours on this I find xterm can understand a different
> switch `xterm -fa bla-bla'
>
> However, xterm as installed from portage does not understand that
> switch at all.
>
> Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to have that ability
> compiled in, so I wondered if our xterm is compiled for that option?
>
> And further if anyone knows what that compile option might be?
>
> Can anyone offer some guidance here...
>
> How to get a few of those fonts to be loadable into an xterm?
>
>
Please clarify ...
... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ),
... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ),
and/or specific xterm ( i.e "x11-terms/xterm" ).
Corbin
