[SOLVED] Trouble setting custom fontpath

moisespedro · 03-08-2014, 11:31 AM

Hi, I've installed some fonts and I realised I had to change the fontpath. Did a search for it on google and most tutorial were outdated (requiring a xorg.conf file). I search a bit further and I've found this but it is not working.

My /usr/share/fonts folder:

Code:

pedro@slack:/usr/share/fonts$ ls -lh
total 264K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  84K Fev 26 14:58 100dpi/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  84K Fev 26 14:58 75dpi/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Mar  1 12:30 BASE/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Mar  1 12:30 EAST_ASIA/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Mar  1 12:30 MIDDLE_ASIA/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Nov 16  2010 OTF/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Nov 16  2010 Speedo/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Mar  1 12:30 TERMINUS/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  12K Nov 15 10:32 TTF/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Nov 16  2010 Type1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Fev 26 14:58 cyrillic/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K Nov 13  2010 encodings/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  12K Mar  8 13:52 local/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  32K Mar  8 13:45 misc/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Mai  4  2012 util/

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts file:

Code:

pedro@slack:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts
# Let X.Org know about the custom font directories
Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/BASE"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/EAST_ASIA"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/local"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/MIDDLE_ASIA"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TERMINUS"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/util"
EndSection

Checking the fontpath:

Code:

 xset q
[...]
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/local,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/OTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic,built-ins 
[...]

brebs · 03-08-2014, 11:43 AM

fontpaths seem outdated, to me. I just compile xorg-server with these options:

Code:

--with-fontrootdir=/usr/share/fonts --with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts

And then all subdirs get picked up.

moisespedro · 03-08-2014, 11:48 AM

I am sure there is another way, recompiling the xorg-server just for that seems a bit too much.

moisespedro · 03-08-2014, 12:02 PM

Well, I thought it would be too much but then I thought "why not?" and here I am recompiling it
EDIT: It doesn't compile, any other solution?
EDIT2: just had to run mkfontdir on the directories