Re: How could I use this font for xterm?
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From: Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...> - 2002-12-12 17:57:43
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Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:17:52AM -0300, Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:= > =20 > >>About Xterm: You have to convert the SFT file into a PCF file, >>I have code to do the reverse ;-). I don=B4t know if the knowledge I >>put in that code can be used to do this conversion. I didn=B4t consult >>the PCF reference, just figured out things looking at the binaries. >> =20 >> > >There seems to be psf font saving routines in cfe, found at >freshmeat. > >Ok, but once I have a .psf file, like one provided with the >consolechars package, how do I change it from the xterm? Those only >like truetype-like names: adobe-weight-slant-etc, not psf filenames. > =20 > XTerm and Linux console are two different problem using two different=20 formats: 1) XTerm PCF 2) Linux PSF So you need the a PCF file for XTerm. Then put it in the misc fonts directory: In my system that=B4s: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ And it will become available. In the next X startup. To find the exact name and test the font use xfontsel. Depending on the tool used to generate the PCF you=B4ll have more or less= =20 luck about the control over the name of the font. XTerm usually uses things like misc-fixed-*... fonts. PSF files are only for Linux console. SET --=20 Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: se...@co... se...@ie...=20 Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013 |