Lucidasanstypewriter-12 is still my favourite xterm font. A long time ago, it switched from ISO8859-1 to ISO10646. Fortunately, I had 2 machines, and salvaged the /usr/share/fonts directory from one, and still insert it in place of whatever portage gives me. I realize that it's an ugly hack, and I'd like to do things the right way. The problem is that I can't figure out how. I'm doing a re-install on a machine, so I can play around a little bit. On the fresh install when I include...
/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 ...in my .xinitrc and launch X manually. The xterm is rather small. When I {CTRL}{RIGHT-CLICK}, the xterm dies and disappears. Meanwhile, on the text console that launched X is the message... Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found Note that I did not specify any fonts. My Google-fu didn't help very much. The best suggestions I found were to... a) put all sub-directories in /usr/share/fonts into FontPath statements in xorg.conf b) run "xlsfonts > textfile" and search for a font I found a bunch of 8859-1 fonts, and chose "b&h luxi" fonts (put special characters in the name, why don't you?). I inserted the following into my .xinitrc (backslashes are required). /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn -b\&h-luxi\ mono-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 & ...and started X. This time the xterm did not die on {CTRL}{RIGHT-CLICK}. Only "Default" font size and "Unreadable" worked properly. All other choices ended up with a middling font size when I cycled through the choices. The text console from which I launched X reported... /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '5x7' /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '6x10' /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '7x13' /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '9x15' /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '10x20' Some progress, but I'm not there yet. I'm sure people have working setups. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications