"Walter Dnes" <[email protected]> writes: > After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my > list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got > down to this... > > [i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world > media-fonts/dejavu > media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi > media-fonts/font-bh-type1 > media-fonts/font-cursor-misc > media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 > > That's in addition to any fonts pulled in by programs. Without > dejavu, ICEWM menus look ugly. I like font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi > for xterms. In your experience, are... > > media-fonts/font-bh-type1 > media-fonts/font-cursor-misc > media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 > > ...really necessary?
They are probably not necessary. Does it hurt to have them? You might definitely want the fonts in the 'media-fonts/source-pro' package. Those are kinda like Dejavu and Lucida done right, which you don't need either.
