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 encodings inconsolata-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?
