Re: Fonts in XQuartz
Re: Fonts in XQuartz
- Subject: Re: Fonts in XQuartz
- From: William Westfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:59:55 -0700
> On Jun 8, 2018, at 6:12 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> X11 fonts are found in directories in the font path. That presumably has
> some initial hardcoded default, but is subsequently set by use of the xset
> command, e.g.
> xset fp+ /Library/Fonts
>
> xset q
> xset fp+ path
> will add to the end of it
>
> The fonts.scale file is usually created with the mkfontscale command;
> then fonts.dir is created with the mkfontdir command
Thanks. Your summary turned out to be very useful.
> All those commands (xset, mkfontdir, mkfontscale, and xfs (the font server))
> have man pages.
Yep; once you know what to ask about. “man -k font” doesn’t mention any of
those, and web searches seemed to point me at linux-specific documentation (and
the fc-* commands.)
> There are multiple versions of xterm, and different compilation options
> (xterm also has a man page). I'm not going to even attempt to describe how
> to configure it
Aside from not knowing the correct magic apps, my problem seems to have been
related in oddness with xterm and emacs, neither of which seems to like the
standard X resources for specifying font names. Using xterm*faceName and
modifying my .emacs eventually gave me what I wanted; I just started out
assuming that more generic procedures would work. (They were both particularly
annoying in that specifying “-font” on the command line would work, but having
Font resources would not.). (actually, I’m not convinced that everything is
“right”, but it’s better.)
Naturally, when you install XQuartz, you get a bunch of pre-compiled and
relatively anonymous versions of things like xterm. I was hoping to avoid
massive customization. (OTOH, that philosophy has led to … me not knowing as
much about X11 (or unix) as perhaps I should.)
Is there a preferred package manager that installs X11-aware software?
Home-brew seems to be proudly declaring their declining support...
Thanks
Bill W
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