12x24 font missing from modular Xorg (font-misc-misc-1.0.0)

jnh · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 13

After upgrading to the new modular X.org 7.0, I noticed that 12x24, one of the original "misc" fonts was no longer available. Other fixed-spacing fonts are part of media-fonts/font-font-misc. 12x24 is probably not very popular, but I've been using it to get near-fullscreen 80x30 or 80x31 rxvt's on a 1024x768 LCD.

Steps for restoring it manually:

- Obtain xc/fonts/bdf/misc/12x24.bdf from another machine (stilll under /usr/portage/distfiles, from an earlier Xorg or Xfree86 build?)

- cd /usr/share/fonts/misc

- bdftopcf < /path/to/12x24.bdf >12x24.pcf

- gzip 12x24.pcf

- mkfontdir

- xset fp rehash

Will this be wiped out on a re-emerge of font-misc-misc? I tried adding it to /usr/share/fonts/local instead, but xlsfonts wouldn't see it there, despite an xorg.conf FontPath line pointing to that directory.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

It won't be wiped out by reinstalling font-misc-misc. Since it doesn't belong to any installed package, portage will not remove it. And since no package provides it, it will never be overwritten.
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