Hi all,
I've been trying out fluxbox recently (the bloat of KDE & Gnome was starting to wear me away) - anyway one of the many recommended things you can do is to install a set of bitmap (.pcf) fonts (the 'artwiz' pack) I've spent ages trying to get these installed, following how-to after how-to from all across the web and just can't seem to get anywhere.
Things that I've done so far that don't seem to have done much
extracted the fonts (14 .pcf files) to /home/crx/.fonts/
added above directory to XF86Config
added
< to XF86Config load section
run
run
which outputs:-
Code:
root@aleph:/home/crx# fc-cache -fv
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 57 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 57 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": caching, 5 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/home/crx/.fonts/": caching, 5 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded
and restarted X
can't access the fonts still - so 2 main questions:-
1) why is it only saying 5 fonts in the output from fc-cache when there should be 14?
2) why is it not working?
secondary questions (if anybody happens to know)
3) what the hell does fc-cache do anyway?
4) whay don't the 5 that where apparently found by fc-cache not show up in any 'font-choosing' window
&
5) can I have a beer now?
Any thoughts, help etc greatly appreciated on this one, it's really driving me up the wall, I'm not sure how much I really want the fonts but it's become somewhat of a crusade now!
Thanks on and all,
Mlqds
PS - Relevant links that might be of interest:-
www.fluxmod.dk
www.fluxbox.org
feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/index.html
jmccoy.sdf-us.org/slackware9/config/fonts/fonts.php