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xfonts-terminus package

aliases not loaded for terminus font

Bug #107213 reported by Manuel López-Ibáñez
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xfonts-terminus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfonts-terminus

Aliases described in /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/misc/xfonts-terminus.alias are not available after installing the package.

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Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez) wrote :

Something goes wrong according to the warnings:

Preparing to replace xfonts-terminus 4.20-5 (using .../xfonts-terminus_4.20-5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfonts-terminus ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
Setting up xfonts-terminus (4.20-5) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory

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Joshua Swink (yathster) wrote :

I can't use these either. After installation:

$ xterm -fn terminus-14
xterm: unable to open font "terminus-14", trying "fixed"....

They do work in gnome-terminal, however.

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Joshua Swink (yathster) wrote : Re: aliases not loaded for terminus font - a workaround

Here is one workaround, though it may be an extremely wrong way to do it:

sudo sh -c "cat /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/misc/xfonts-terminus.alias >> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias"
xset fp rehash

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Joshua Swink (yathster) wrote :

This bug is fixed in Debian's xfonts-terminus package version 4.20-6.

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Joshua Swink (yathster) wrote :

Fixed in hardy. Cheers

xfonts-terminus (4.20-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Install the alias files in their proper place /etc/X11/fonts/misc.
    Thanks to Chris Moore, closes: #401801.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in xfonts-terminus:
status: New → Fix Released
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