From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed Nov 29 10:48:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E880CDFFC74 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:48:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com (mail-io0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADFD86F0BE for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:48:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id d14so3215959ioc.5 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:48:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=GDh3lz4mGNzwHK3TTg9BkoOmN30sF9VASyTNhizlock=; b=OybMq68pCCjx0kDdJW9NP+Xu9lmhHOiaj5P+mOPL9/zm1bF/QFcnN3YFozEvaHKfhI afNHi0mcDV4oytqWqnXVLY7sFV2YPAzMxmynaTQ48mNMN/lKtQvnTstA3T64wI7jTB+o LqOBbOA2Mpc0ep6EdtYLWwu9d/yxckR1e1NsVT89ouBdrFQgka67JIlok/ee9vmulpIx IAMmhJwDIbk9yckm29iBfUzpZtmf00VlwEGIKDSbGcY7ECsiiLBAbxhOmCzX5eouJk+a qmE9jPrrUYMx/SrB5kQ4PQdJqWozpMnvMlgTXRHiJ8Mhhrk6PDJLUKFwI7dAkNviaJgq 58xQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=GDh3lz4mGNzwHK3TTg9BkoOmN30sF9VASyTNhizlock=; b=lXJMKFf5hZnuBu40N+HBj4K3gLpaektMKpcAAtZbaPVxmFEcqsLGEdZtnrsTje2E5N i1URwCHlFu89Y3Y8+W5xkl2h+hJyyt23gCtmhE6f1qkqVpZ+dBgsocQUmqEsOyPkHohl WylvQruruP7JXtalQYPJxR6LuUbMOD2XgX1IHS2f7zW0v9TV6ek7Jmm1ivGvChe4cY34 5yigj1uxoXutRgbKsALOroErYkV9EU08eIVK4FRNLRSAQhNbqCKj/+lKwBHEq+gFIemT dAWai1N4hJX7ipZE1I+hmLRqfz90uSLFDASiFNuS9Puvk12kZU+7lCQuy0aBLeZVM3Bx JmLg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX6qnoCOBL2KD5qVMhHpomxl+QQbv2zk7s6MMinoX1NSaCKARdOw PIFi1eHtV+N8MfkyCx0DT4FkINPxRXI/2IEzZ2Q= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMaCe1yifZOvaZRpMf5n+OfrZRvfj0xVia4JKaCt91XYKpi4SDOpnpgHhhgSjuTQWzGUv1Qt4JIrPP0tXaCH2bo= X-Received: by 10.107.162.131 with SMTP id l125mr3018285ioe.153.1511952516734; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:48:36 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.11.31 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:48:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: blubee blubeeme Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:48:36 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: trying to get fonts working in X11 To: Brett Wiggins Cc: x11-list freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:48:38 -0000 I've run into issues like that before and what I've done mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/YOUR_FONT_FOLDER put the fonts in there, you can make it as complicated or simple as you like. For example multiple font folders or just dump all of them into one font folder. Then: cd /usr/local/share/fonts/YOUR_FONT_FOLDER mkfontdir . then create a xorg.conf file touch /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-fonts.conf I use the 00 prefix to organize my conf files inside that file just add something like this: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/YOUR_FONT_FOLDER" EndSection that should get everything working. for example I've installed the noto fonts from google and Fira fonts for my terminal. I added them to folders like this: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/noto" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/Fira" EndSection both fonts are picked up by all programs. Noto is great for web since it captures a lot of exotic fonts but it's 1.1GB Fira just looks great on my terminal. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Brett Wiggins wrote: > Hello, > > I am having issues installing and getting fonts to work in X. I have > consulted the handbook page ( > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html) > and have installed a few fonts. The fonts I have installed are on my system > here; > > /usr/local/share/fonts > > I have used xset to try and set fonts for example roboto-fonts-ttf; > > xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/roboto-fonts-ttf > xset fp rehash > > I have done so with a few of the fonts. Here is a list of fonts installed > on my system; > > total 216 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 69120 Nov 26 17:19 100dpi > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 79360 Nov 26 17:18 75dpi > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 26 17:17 OTF > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 26 17:17 TTF > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Nov 28 19:37 TrueType > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1536 Nov 26 17:17 Type1 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Nov 27 05:56 cantarell > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 3072 Nov 26 17:18 cyrillic > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1536 Nov 26 17:18 dejavu > drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 2048 Nov 26 17:17 encodings > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4608 Nov 28 19:10 freefonts > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 15360 Nov 26 17:18 misc > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 29 17:14 roboto-fonts-ttf > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Nov 28 19:09 urwfonts > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 26 17:17 util > > Is the ownership of the directories or files a problem? I changed all of > the directories to 777 but that doesn't seem to do anything. I have run > xset on every directory, but in my dekstop applications such as firefox, > the text is still hard to read. Below is info regarding my system. Any help > would be appreciated. > > FreeBSD beastie 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21 > 02:08:28 UTC 2017 > root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > amd64 > > xorg-7.7_3 X.Org complete distribution metaport > xorg-apps-7.7_2 X.org apps meta-port > xorg-cf-files-1.0.6 X.org cf files for use with imake builds > xorg-docs-1.7.1,1 X.org documentation files > xorg-drivers-7.7_5 X.org drivers meta-port > xorg-fonts-7.7_1 X.org fonts meta-port > xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.7 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts > xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.7 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts > xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.7 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts > xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.7 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts > xorg-fonts-truetype-7.7_1 X.Org TrueType fonts > xorg-fonts-type1-7.7 X.Org Type1 fonts > xorg-libraries-7.7_2 X.org libraries meta-port > xorg-macros-1.19.1 X.Org development aclocal macros > xorg-server-1.18.4_4,1 X.Org X server and related programs > > > hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz > hw.machine: amd64 > hw.ncpu: 8 > > Thank you for your time, > > Brett. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >