I have a feeling that the answer to my woes is quite simple, but I haven't had any luck with Google, Arch/BBQ Wiki, Reddit, or man pages.
I am immigrating to BORK! from Hot Dog and realized that for some odd reason, even though 'fc-list | grep Monaco' returns
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/home/drchroot/.fonts/Monaco_Linux.ttf: Monaco:style=Regular
my 'URxvt*font: xft:Monaco:Regular:size=7:antialias=true' line causes any attempt to spawn a new terminal with:
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urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.
Hmm. That was strange. So I decided that I was tired of Monaco anyway, cloned the Tewi repo and tossed both the .pcf and .bdf versions of the fonts in to my .fonts, then gave it a 'fc-cache -f' and 'fc-list' with only Monaco and no Tewi anywhere to be found:
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/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Serif:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold
/home/drchroot/.fonts/Monaco_Linux.ttf: Monaco:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf: DejaVu Serif:style=Book
So, I've had a cup of coffee, went for a jog, meditated on my navel for a bit, and then waved a dead chicken over it (my navel, not my precious Thinkpad) and then tried it again. Nada. Shamefully, I even rebooted the darn thing to see if that worked. Nada x2. What did I screw up in a profound way, and why did the dead chicken thing not work? No rush (actually, you should
listen to Rush) and thanks for any advice!