From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 19:57:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE5616A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:57:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9F543D1F for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so1092358rng for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=oTZAYGrBbimYb/sDs6aM5buWdMVhmzDWAvMgUZIg9yoj0j59MXF2z7rMeLHGODSvrPx4+glQaomCn8+CvFazcdSwbPbvWc/wYedOrxd7elQ/DNJmAuho/D4+mzbYtCmC2h2+UQzAi65x4+4qDzBzBkaVbuH/RYOmWWN1iw7Mw5M= Received: by 10.38.149.23 with SMTP id w23mr3977125rnd; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?59.93.162.47? ([59.93.162.47]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 63sm614718rna.2005.05.24.12.56.59; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42938705.8020700@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 01:26:53 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Schmoe References: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050524194117.93409.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030704060509090900070806" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:57:02 -0000 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--