[Xastir] droid fonts

[Curt Mills]

Also see the top two sections here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-fonts.html

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Ken Koster <n7ipb at wetnet.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 10:39:06 AM PDT Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Ken Koster <n7ipb at wetnet.net> wrote:
> > > Since I've been mucking with xastir fonts I thought I'd give my
> suggestion
> > > for a good one to
> > > use for station and menu text.  I have no idea if this is available on
> > > every distro but it is on
> > > openSUSE.
> > >
> > > Menu's:
> > > -*-droid sans mono-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> > >
> > > Station Font
> > > -*-droid sans mono-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> >
> > Resurrecting an old thread, now that I've gotten around to looking at
> this.
> >
> > I've installed these fonts on CentOS 6 and on raspbian, but have had no
> > luck getting them to display with xastir, xterm or xfontsel.  On both
> > systems, these are truetype fonts.
> >
> > Any clues on how to make these available to xastir?
>
> I would expect that if you installed the fonts with the package manager
> they
> should just show up.  In my distro (OpenSUSE) they're already installed as
> part of the basic system.
>
> Xastir pulls the fonts from the underlying X system so if it's aware of
> them
> Xastir should show them with xfontsel.
>
> Not being a CentOS user and never having added fonts to raspian I don't
> know
> for sure how to add them manually but a little googling got me this.
>
> For Centos:
> https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-x-fonts.html
>
> For debian (and presumably raspian)
> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts
>
> I hope that helps
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