Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:04:28 -0600 From: "Janky Jay, III" <jankyj@unfs.us> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFCE4 No Longer Displaying 3rd-Party Fonts. Message-ID: <14262770-1ce2-6618-a248-044b86d4810c@unfs.us> In-Reply-To: <6c521f30-31e7-bac0-61b6-3138d301ba82@madpilot.net> References: <95a97d99-70fc-7eb7-46e4-a294bdcdbd0f@unfs.us> <6c521f30-31e7-bac0-61b6-3138d301ba82@madpilot.net>
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Subject: Re: XFCE4 No Longer Displaying 3rd-Party Fonts.
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Hi Guido,
On 7/13/21 1:32 AM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On 12/07/21 16:49, Janky Jay, III wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 So, I'm unsure if this is where this should g=
o, but it did happen
>> after a recent port (pkg) upgrade of a FreeBSD 13.0 desktop system tha=
t
>> I've been running. I'd moved from "quarterly" to "latest" and got the
>> updates and now my XFCE4 desktop doesn't display any of the fonts I wa=
s
>> previously using. I only have the three basic fonts options of "Dejavu=
",
>> "Luxi", and "Monospace."
>>
>> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 I did come across a post on the forums [1] th=
at appears to be the
>> exact situation that I'm seeing. However, that topic was labeled as
>> "Solved" but I don't see any actual resolution to the problem. From th=
e
>> sound of it, their Terminus font didn't work in XFCE4 nor in Fluxbox s=
o
>> they used something else and it did work? If that's the case, I don't
>> really see that as a "fix."
>
> I'm not a fonts expert and for UI I usually just stick to the
> defaults, so I'm not sure I can help much here, anyway:
>
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Quite alright. I appreciate the reply!
> Where exactly are you missing the extra fonts? I just made a quick
> test (on my FreeBSD 14 machine running xfce from latest) and in
> mousepad (xfce text editor) I see various fonts in the list (serto,
> caladea, carlito, Liberation) and can choose those. Maybe I'm checking
> the wrong place?
>
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 I first noticed the missing fonts when I opened my xfc=
e4-terminal
which as previously using an Artwiz font. When I tried to set it back to
that font after the upgrade, it was no longer a choice. After that,
looking in the XFCE4 settings, there are also only the same three fonts
to choose from for any system font.
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 When I open Mousepad, there are a couple additional fo=
nts (that must
come with the application?) such as Sans, Serif and Serto but, again, no
other fonts such as the Artwiz, Terminus, Caladea, Liberation, etc...
>
> Have you tried forcing reinstallation of the fonts packages on your
> system? maybe some caching was lost, reinstalling the package would
> force rebuilding the font caches.
>
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 I have! I've tried reinstalling the packages for some =
of the fonts
and I've also manually placed the fonts into my ~/.fonts directory and
re-ran "fc-cache" (which shows the font added) but I continue to get the
same results.
> I also see various suggestions to add paths to xorg.conf or
> xorg.conf.d Do you have any? I think modern xorg does not need those
> and does a pretty good job at autodetecting fonts, such lines could
> actually confuse it.
>
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 So far, I have:
* Re-installed all fonts.
* Added the font paths to the "Files" section in the xorg.conf file.
* Created a new fonts.conf file in the ${LOCALBASE}/etc/xorg.conf.d
directory with the paths to the files.
* Made sure the "70-yes-bitmaps.conf" symlink existed in
${LOCALBASE}/etc/fonts/conf.d
* Placed the fonts into my ~/.fonts directory, ran
mkfontdir/mkfontscale and re-ran "fc-cache -v -f"
* Placed the fonts into one of the many directories in
/usr/local/share/fonts/* and re-ran "fc-cache"
* Checked the Xorg.0.log to verify font paths are being picked up
(they are)
* Installed and ran "xfontsel" to see if I could search for the fonts
and verify they were installed and picked up by X (they are)
* Created an ~/.xsession file and entered commands using "xset +fp
/paths" to add the fonts after login
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 All of the above had lead to nothing thus far. I'm abs=
olutely
stumped as to why I'm unable to use any of my installed fonts in XFCE4
applications.
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Thanks again for the reply, Guido!
Regards,
Janky Jay, III
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