trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Tue May 24 12:57:02 PDT 2005


On 5/25/2005 1:11, Joe Schmoe wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am advised by the bitchx faq that the best xterm
>environment to run bitchx under is rxvt, with the
>vga11x19 font.
>
>So I installed rxvt from the ports tree, and ran:
>
>rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19
>
>it did indeed start, but I received the error:
>
>rxvt: can't load font "vga11x19"
>
>Sure enough, I do not have that font.  So I searched
>for it and downloaded the file vga11x19.pcf.gz and
>placed it into my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
>directory.  I then ran `rehash`.
>
>However I get the same error from rxvt.
>
>How can I incorporate this new font file into my
>system such that rxvt can find it ?  Would it help to
>just re-init my Xserver ?  Or should I be able to drop
>new font files into that dir and use them on the fly ?
>
>thanks.
>
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You need to rebuild your font path. Refer to the handbook. There is a 
section which explains how to intall fonts. It simply does not involve 
downloading and copying the font file into the font path.

Regards
S.


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