On Sunday 15 of October 2017 10:26:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 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?
>
> Nik

I recommend that you focus your attention on the 70-no-bitmaps.conf symlink in 
the folder /etc/fonts/conf.d

Cheers
-- 
Slávek