Install pcf.gz

Couldn't find anything on web either, besides your question. However, bitmap fonts were enabled and working but not ohsnap anymore so I wondered why and finally compared the filenames. I've just tried to gzip and it worked, but don't ask me why ; — OMG3Bet.

I know this is old now but just incase anyone has the same problem version 2. FreeType 2. This is a minor bug fix release: All users of PCF fonts should update, since version 2. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Quick installation. Later in this file, I saw: 4.

X11 Window System. What is the magical incantation I have to perform in order to get this font working with xterm? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Xresources to make them register in the current X session. Rik Schneider Rik Schneider 2, 13 13 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. It looks godawful.

Fortunately, our very own hhh has long been aware of a solution and has documented it on the Crunchbang Forums , which I am going to put here for posterity's sake:.

If I enable bitmap fonts, either through dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config or by symlinking yes-bitmaps. In chromium, or if I disable bitmap fonts, or if I change Iceweasel's prefs to use a specific font like "sans", no problem. Replace it with the following This step only needs to be performed once. Run the following command to reconfigure fonts for your system:. Gzip the fonts This next command is necessary because Debian no longer recognises.

Go into the font folder, gzip all the fonts and then return to the parent folder:. You can install and configure fonts for most window managers and programs. You can set fonts for most text based console programs and GUI programs. X-Windows font system is configured in two systems. Both are used in all X-Windows systems. The core X fonts are the older font system for fonts in the X-Windows System. Even though is the old system, its is still used, and is necessary for many functions.

The program xlsfonts can be used for listing all installed fonts , as well as their properties. X font names are extremely confusing to decipher.