f11 - missing font?

Robert Wuest rwuestfc at wuest.org
Wed Jul 1 19:04:57 UTC 2009


On 07/01/2009 01:02 PM, Robert Wuest wrote:
> On 07/01/2009 12:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:15:37 +0100
>> Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>>
>>> As such, it's probably not installed and X is sourcing the fonts from
>>> their directories and not via a font server.
>>
>> I wonder if that's the issue. Perhaps xscreensaver requires xfs.
>>
> I don't think so. I did a test:
> stop xfs,
> run an xterm
> select -*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-960-*-*-m-*-*-*
> and then use ctrl-right_click to select the font in the clipboard.
>
> That worked.
>
> Also, with xfs stopped, I ran
>
> $ fc-match -- '-*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-960-*-*-m-*-*-*'
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
> $ locate DejaVuSans.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
> $ rpm -qf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
> dejavu-sans-fonts-2.29-2.fc11.noarch
>
Replying to my own posts. Bleh

Actually it proves nothing about xscreensaver, just that 
-*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-960-*-*-m-*-*-* is coming from fontconfig, not xfs.





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