Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2017-10-15 10:26 (UTC+0200): > I just run into another interesting thing that I do not know how to solve - > and it's most likely not connected to TDE, but anyway: > Ages ago (~ 2004) there were a number of bitmap fonts available in debian. I > remember epic fights to replace them with TTF fonts. Some days ago I tried to > get bitmaped fonts into devuan - and failed miserably. > The situation on FreeBSD is this: bitmaped fonts (e.g. gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz > frim lfpfonts-fix) and ttf fonts (as any other fonts) coexist perfectly well > in X11. In any application (TDE/OpenSCAD/Scintilla/Terminator/... ) I can > select e.g. "Gamow". The font "Gamow" comes from the "Linux Font Project", so > I suspected it's present on devuan as well. > Now the situation on devuan is quite different: There are only some bitmap > fonts available, none of these are selectable in X11 for > TDE/OpenSCAD/Scintilla/Terminator/... - but I can see them with "xfontsel". > Also it seams that the "Linux Font Project"-fonts are not in the archives > anymore. > I tried to add "gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz" by hand using TDE, but the font > installation failed. I tried to install it by copying the font to ~/.fonts, > but the font does not show up. "mkfontdir" in ~/.fonts creates a fonts.dir > with the entry "gamow_08_m_r.pcf.gz > -lfp-gamow-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75--80-iso8859-1", but the only X11 > application that sees this font is "xfontsel". > So, is there a way to get bitmaped fonts back? Try putting manually installed fonts in a non-deprecated location, either: ~/.local/share/fonts/ (user-specific), or /usr/local/share/fonts/ (global) https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/14 https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts?action=diff&rev1=89&rev2=90 (deprecated location restored to Debian wiki) If this fails, try adding explicit font paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/