See the last post "Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:56 pm" in the thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-813945-start-0.html Apparently, some time ago, USE="nls" became necessary for basic xterm functionality in ISO8859-1. If there was a news item, I missed it. I tried...
USE="nls" emerge font-misc-misc ...and now things mostly work. The xterm has multiple font sizes for unreadable/tiny/small/medium/large/huge. Text defaults to bold; I'll try to figure that out. Next step is to grep all "media-fonts" entries in /var/lib/portage/world, and rebuild them. I notice that... media-fonts/* nls ...in package.use actually works the way I want, which simplifies things rebuilding now, and it'll automatically catch any updates or new fonts in the future. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
