On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 08:07:51PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 05:50:01PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I see that xvile can now be built to use TrueType fonts. > > > > Is this straightforward? The xvile that comes in Debian 12 isn't > > built for TrueType so I'll need to build it myself. I've built and > > compiled it before so that's not a big problem but are there any > > particular issues I should be aware of? > > > > Also, will it just allow me to select all the fonts I can see in the > > rest of my GUI? > > > > The reason for all this is that I have just bought myself a new 4k > > monitor so I need to make everything use bigger fonts! :-) > > > I have just tried:- > > ./configure --with-x --with-screen=X11 --with-freetype-config > --enable-fontsets --with-perl > > ... and it fails (after compiling quite a lot) with:- > > make: *** No rule to make target 'x11fancy.c', needed by 'x11fancy.o'. > Stop. > OK, found the problem, remove the --enable-fontsets and it compiles OK now. However I'm not sure how to select fonts.
-- Chris Green
