Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 01:26:53 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> 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: <42938705.8020700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030704060509090900070806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/25/2005 1:11, Joe Schmoe wrote: >Hello, > >I am advised by the bitchx faq that the best xterm >environment to run bitchx under is rxvt, with the >vga11x19 font. > >So I installed rxvt from the ports tree, and ran: > >rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19 > >it did indeed start, but I received the error: > >rxvt: can't load font "vga11x19" > >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`. > >However I get the same error from rxvt. > >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 ? > >thanks. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You need to rebuild your font path. Refer to the handbook. There is a section which explains how to intall fonts. It simply does not involve downloading and copying the font file into the font path. Regards S. --------------030704060509090900070806--
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