Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:53:58 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg Message-ID: <20050524195358.GA20742@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com>
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--gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > rxvt: can't load font "vga11x19" >=20 > Sure enough, I do not have that font. So I searched > for it and downloaded the file vga11x19.pcf.gz and > placed it into my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > directory. I then ran `rehash`. >=20 > However I get the same error from rxvt. >=20 > How can I incorporate this new font file into my > system such that rxvt can find it ? Would it help to > just re-init my Xserver ? Or should I be able to drop > new font files into that dir and use them on the fly ? You have to remake the fonts.dir file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. As root, cd to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, and run 'mkfontdir'. Then 'xset fp rehash', or restart the X server. This is documented in the xset manual page. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCk4ZWEnfvsMMhpyURAvu5AJ91OAlCza03IwRdo45dVcu0J3fXMwCdEnYd WIJGVMYJfcZMTabOzTtxNq8= =qIDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--
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