Changing font for ST terminal emulator

DrLucky · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2022 Posts: 5

I am having an unusual issue changing the font for ST

I can successfully edit the st source code at /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-terms/st-0.8.5
and then recompile with emerge.

A quick neofetch confirms the new terminal font. However, the ONLY font that works is the default Liberation Mono

All other fonts look *exactly* the same: overlapping characters with bad kerning.

I have tried both fonts that live in ~/.local/share/fonts and fonts from /usr/share/fonts with no difference.

The only only font that works is the default Liberation Mono.

I didn't expect my first post on the Gentoo forums to be about a font, but here we are lol!
Please tell me what I'm missing here
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mike155 · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:17 pm Post subject:

Usually I don't use st, but I just tried.

All commands below work and give me st terminal windows with different fonts. media-fonts/dejavu and media-fonts/source-code-pro are installed on my machine.

DrLucky · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2022 Posts: 5

You know that thing where it starts working whenever you go to show somebody how its broken??

I hadn't tried launching the terminal with a font flag as in your example/ But that worked.
So I went and edited the source and recompiled and it works fine now!

I have no clue why, DejaVu Sans Mono was one of the fonts I had used earlier with no luck.

All I can guess is I had a typo somewhere else in the line, but that wouln't explain why going back to Liberation Mono would work.
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