Re: Can't enable any bitmap fonts except Fixed, Unifont and WQY

Akira TAGOH <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:34:00 +0900

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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:21 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> $ fc-cache -v | grep 100
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: skipping, existing cache is valid: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
>
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi is the directory where helvetica is:
>
>      $ du -c /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helv* | tail
>      8 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
>      8 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
>      8 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
>      8 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
>      1544       total

Please make sure if those fonts can be scanned properly. try fc-scan
and/or fc-query to check scanning.
if that works, you may have some config which contains <rejectfont> to
prevent those fonts. otherwise reporting 0 fonts for the dir where has
fonts is unlikely.

> What OS are you using? I'm thinking this is a Debian/Ubuntu specific problem.

That is Fedora.

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Akira TAGOH
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