I would read the fonts(7) man page first. Specifically the 'Installing fonts in Xft' section.
-- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, at 23:38, Carson Chittom wrote: > I have purchased some fonts that I like, and I want to use them > throughout my OpenBSD 7.0 system. I have both TTF and OTF versions of > the fonts. > > I created a new port in /usr/ports/mystuff/myfonts and copied over the > Makefile from fonts/ibm-plex to use as a model, edited it *only* > (AFAICR) to adjust for font names and paths, did the minimum possible to > actually create a package, and installed it. That worked fine. > > I may have run mkfontscale and mkfontdir manually in each font's > directory as well; I don't remember. In any case, the fonts are > available to GTK and Qt. > > As part of ~/.xsession, I also have: > > if [ -d /usr/local/share/fonts ]; then > for i in /usr/local/share/fonts/*; do > xset fp+ $i > done > xset fp rehash > fi > > But the fonts still do not show up in xfontsel (unlike, for example, if > I install fonts/ibm-plex), and I don't seem to be able to use them in > Fvwm either, even if I copy a font description directly from > /usr/local/share/fonts/myfonts/fonts.dir > > So, I'm guessing either my fonts are missing something, or I'm missing > something. I've tried to search and mostly just turned up Arch Linux > wiki pages telling me to do the things I'd already done with > mkfontscale, mkfontdir, and xset. Can anyone point me in the right > direction?
