Proggy bitmap fonts problem

[kerem]

Hi

I am trying to use Proggy bitmap fonts but for some reason they do not install or work well. I install the bitmap versions but in the list they show up as ttf and when I select them to use in Gvim, and they have nothing to do with the real Proggy fonts

http://www.proggyfonts.com/

I download the X versions
put them in the ~/.fonts folder
I then fire "fc-cache -fv"

I have bunch of other installed bitmap fonts like Neep, Dina, Progsole etc they all work great in Gvim except Proggy.


Does anyone know how to get this thing work ?


thanks

[kerem]

Hmm, noone has problems with this font under Debian?

[scoober]

You might need to reconfigure your font configuration, I seem to recall that bitmap fonts are disabled by default. as root, try

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

and look for options relating to bitmap fonts

[kerem]

You might need to reconfigure your font configuration, I seem to recall that bitmap fonts are disabled by default. as root, try

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

and look for options relating to bitmap fonts

h
Hi

As I mentioned my bitmap fonts work except the proggy one

"
I have bunch of other installed bitmap fonts like Neep, Dina, Progsole etc they all work great in Gvim except Proggy."

I will try your trick though

thanks

[kerem]

Ok this is driving me nuts here These fonts(Proggy) do not work in another new Debian install either. I do not get it, all the other bitmap fonts work.

Is someone kind of enough to try installing the Proggy fonts and see if there is anything wrong with them?

thanks

[dbbolton]

I'm having the same issue. Other gzipped PCF fonts work fine (e.g. gohufont). The proggy fonts show up in font selection lists in Qt and GTK programs but when selected the text is clearly rendered in DejaVu Sans. When I select a proggy font in xfontsel they are rendered correctly. When I set URxvt's font to a proggy font, it seems to work. So it must be a problem with certain GUI programs.

For now, I'm sticking with Gohu: http://font.gohu.eu/

[dbbolton]

I just tried the TTF versions and they work fine in GVim (as long as you set it to the correct size, 12 for all the ones I've tried so far). However, bold and italic text doesn't look so good, although this can be remedied by modifying your colorscheme.