Gentoo - Fluxbox

Ephracis · 06-28-2006, 09:01 PM

Not a font-guru. I have recently installed gentoo and I'm using fluxbox. Now I want to use the artwiz fonts so I emerged the artwiz-fonts package but no style that uses the artwiz fonts shows up correctly. Any ideas what may be wrong here or how to investigate further?

ilikejam · 06-28-2006, 09:17 PM

Hi.

First (just to make sure your fonts are properly installed), run 'xfontsel' and make sure you can see artwiz in the fndry menu.

If that's OK, try switching off antialiasing in ~/.fluxbox/init

Code:

session.screen0.antialias: false

Dave

Ephracis · 06-29-2006, 03:54 PM

No, I see no artwiz in the fndry-menu. I haven't done anything else then just emerge and then replace the config in the /etc/X11/fs dir with the new one (since I had to do that manually).
The config contains the line
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz:unscaled
and that dir exists with all the fonts in it. xfs is up running, too. Anything else I should look at?

ilikejam · 06-30-2006, 02:22 PM

Is there a fonts.dir file in usr/share/fonts/artwiz ?

If so, try restarting xfs. If not, run mkfontdir on that directory, then try restarting xfs.

Dave

Ephracis · 07-02-2006, 06:36 AM

After googling a bit I found out that the artwiz fonts do not work correctly with gentoo (fc-cache return 0 fonts in the artwiz dir). The solution was to emerge artwiz-aleczapka-en (and ignore its masked state) which contains some artwiz fonts fixed by aleczapka to work with gentoo.

a_guy · 07-29-2006, 02:30 AM

You might want to try artwiz-latin1. They have the same fonts as aleczapka's fonts and have support for iso8859-1 characters.

You can download them from sourceforge.net/projects/artwiz-latin1