Installing new fonts

runa · 08-23-2006, 12:47 PM

Hi

I have just installed fluxbox, and I want to use the artwiz-fonts[1]. I downloaded the package and put it in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, then I did the following: xset fp rehash. After that, I restarted X.

But there were no changes, and I am out of ideas on what to try next.
And for those who would like to know - I run Debian Sid :)

Thanks in advance.

[1]: http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/

Simon Bridge · 08-24-2006, 04:59 AM

Have you seen: http://nl.ijs.si/gnusl/cee/x11/font.install.html ?

runa · 08-24-2006, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

Have you seen: http://nl.ijs.si/gnusl/cee/x11/font.install.html ?

I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong here. This is what I did:

midget@strip:~$ cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts# mkdir artwiz

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts# mv
/home/midget/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3.tar.bz2 artwiz

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts# cd artwiz/

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz# mkfontdir

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz# cd ..

strip:/usr/lib/X11/fonts# xset +fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz/

xset: bad font path element (#68), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

runa · 08-25-2006, 09:10 AM

ok, I've figured it out now.

I installed the font with aptitude install, and I found it in xfontsel (which means it installed just fine). So, to use the font i the fluxbox-style, I used "artwiz-10"