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 Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject: bash prompt VGA Font |
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I'm trying to get a bash prompt like this one: http://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/red.html
so that I can much easily notice which user I'm logged in as. However, after doing some reading and putting the code into my ~/.bashrc and it not working, I need vga fonts. Where/how can I get vga fonts?
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I believe the pcf/bdf is generated/available in the app-emulation/dosemu package amongst other places...
You may need to USE=X to get it to install.
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That helped make it so that instead of random characters in the color gradient, it is now question marks with a blue background. I'm still missing a piece somewhere. Any ideas?
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You are starting the terminal emulator with the vga font?
xterm -fn vga
it works for me... though I'm partial to single line prompts...
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When I put in the command, is outputs:
| Code: | Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
xterm: cannot load font vga |
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You may need to rebuild the font cache.
For some reason I have two copies:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4587 Jun 13 2004 /usr/share/fonts/misc/vga.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4844 Apr 1 2008 /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts/vga.pcf.gz
make sure you have mkfontdir run on that directory, your font path includes these directories, and xset fp rehash ...
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I'm missing the vga.pcf.gz in /usr/share/fonts/misc/
It does show in the other directory you listed.
mkfontdir and xset didn't change anything.
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