[RESOLVED] fc-cache not listing .pcf or .bdf fonts

[Dr_Chroot]

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!

[GekkoP]

I usually put pcf fonts in /usr/share/fonts/local and then do this

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sudo fc-cache -fs
sudo mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/local
sudo mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/local

Also, I have this in my .xinitrc:

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## xset for custom fonts
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

[Dr_Chroot]

Hmm... tossed Tewi-normal-11.pcf into /usr/share/fonts/local and followed the steps. fc-list still returns the same old list, so I might try to restart X.org and see what gives.

[Dr_Chroot]

Dang. Nothing has changed. Even restarted BORK itself.

[GekkoP]

Sorry, then. I always do that and it never failed me. I'm out of ideas.

[Dr_Chroot]

That's fine! Thanks for the help, anywho :D I'll thinker around with it and see what I can conjure up.

Good news is that 'fc-cache -fsv' included

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/usr/share/fonts/local: caching, new cache contents: 18 fonts, 0 dirs

, so at least I know that it is in there and working. I just need to find out why fc-list isn't pulling it up, or why X.org isn't able to find it when I include it in my .Xresources.

[wuxmedia]

you know I just had that exact thing this morning.
Installed BORK! had the same error, except I put my weird .Xres in
I installed tty-dejavu or something and it worked better.

Tried all of what gekko posted, from googling the error.
working now. not sure what I did right.

[Dr_Chroot]

^ Thou hast given me hope. I am reworking the .Xresources to see what I can come up with...

[Dr_Chroot]

Would anyone else like to welcome Captain Oblivious and His Orchestra? I forgot to include the ampersand at the end of the xset options in my .Xresources. Oops.

[GekkoP]

If you fixed it, mark it SOLVED please. Just for future searches' sake.

[Dr_Chroot]

Whelp, it didn't work. Sorry :/ I might toss Arch on another partition and see if it is something with Debian.

[Dr_Chroot]

Ok, lets see what I can do here. I sifted through some Google searches and decided to give another .ttf a try. I downloaded Envy Code R and extracted the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/local then did the

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fc-cache -fsv

and then had the delightful reply to my 'fc-list | grep Envy' of

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/usr/share/fonts/local/Envy Code R.ttf: Envy Code R:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/local/Envy Code R Italic.ttf: Envy Code R:style=Italic
/usr/share/fonts/local/Envy Code R Bold.ttf: Envy Code R:style=Bold

So, just to clarify that I am not out of my mind, is the correct .Xresources syntax to enter this:

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URxvt*font: xft:Envy Code R:Regular:size=8:antialias=true

Because it still doesn't seem to want to work for me -_-

[dkeg]

alright, first off, check this out. So I generally list my fonts like this

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$ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-m*'
$ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-c*'

or just

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xlsfonts

or for example

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xlsfonts|grep artwiz

I personally have a $HOME/.fonts. But I just grabbed some new fonts and tried Gekko's method. Logged out, came back in (may or may not be necessary), and I can confirm it works. When you place what was suggested in your .xinitrc, you do not need the ampersand at the end. That seriously should work.

[Dr_Chroot]

THAT WORKED!

[Dr_Chroot]

xlsfonts... That'll be my first tattoo. Thanks for that.

[Dr_Chroot]

Jeez, I'm happy. Thanks, dkeg! (Thanks everyone, for that matter!)

[Dr_Chroot]

http://youtu.be/eBa2Mm-nP50 <--- me right now. And it isn't even Christmas...

[dkeg]

Yeah man, happy to help.

[wuxmedia]

good stuff, never quite got to understand fonts on any system I've used.