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?
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
