From: Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fonts from specified directory
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:43:26 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pnl8ju$1aed$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.838.1537085537.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to configure Emacs to use fonts from a specified
> directory? My OS is Linux. For instance, I have downloaded a version
> of DejaVu fonts that is more recent than the one provided by the OS, and
> have installed the new fonts as, say, /foo/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf. Is it
> possible to configure Emacs to use /foo/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf instead of
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf?
/foo/dejavu/ should contain files fonts.dir, fonts.scale
Otherwise create them
mkfontscale /foo/dejavu/
mkfontdir /foo/dejavu/
change the font path
xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/
xset +fp /foo/dejavu/
xset fp rehash
and try
emacs -fn fontname
The names are in fonts.dir
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[not found] <mailman.838.1537085537.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-16 9:43 ` Javier [this message]
2018-09-16 13:37 ` Fonts from specified directory N. Raghavendra
2018-09-16 8:11 N. Raghavendra
2018-09-16 9:36 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 13:19 ` N. Raghavendra
2018-09-16 13:40 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 13:55 ` N. Raghavendra
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