[kmscon-devel] Setting Font Name & Size

[John Magolske]

Hi,

I'm trying to sort out how to go about setting font name & size. Could
the name be picked from the output of `fc-list`? For example, to use
the Terminus 18 font:

    % fc-list | grep Terminus | grep 18
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18b_iso-8859-1.pcf.gz: Terminus:style=Bold
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18b_unicode.pcf.gz: Terminus:style=Bold
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18n_unicode.pcf.gz: Terminus:style=Regular
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18n_iso-8859-1.pcf.gz: Terminus:style=Regular

I tried this:

    # kmscon --font-name Terminus --font-size 18

Which launched kmscon using Terminus, but at a size larger than 18
pixels tall. Realizing "font-size" here is in points, I set "font-dpi"
as well, trying a value of 72:

    # kmscon --font-name Terminus --font-size 18 --font-dpi 72

Ok, that seems to set it to an 18 pixel height. Is there a way to
specify Regular / Bold? Some guesses (that didn't work):

    # kmscon --font-name Terminus:style=Bold --font-size 18 
    # kmscon --font-name Terminus B --font-size 18 

Also, I have a certain 9x20 bdf font I'd like to use, so I copied
it to /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc and ran what I thought were the
appropriate commands:

    # cp sgiscreen-9x20.bdf /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
    # cd /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
    # mkfontdir
    # cat fonts.dir | grep sgi
    # sgiscreen-9x20.pcf sgiscreen-9x20
    # fc-cache .
    # fc-list | grep sgi
    #

fc-cache is not seeing it, but it does show up in fc-scan:

    # fc-scan .
    [...]
    Pattern has 20 elts (size 32)
        family: "sgiscreen-9x20"(s)
        style: "Regular"(s)
        slant: 0(i)(s)
        weight: 80(i)(s)
        width: 100(i)(s)
        pixelsize: 13(f)(s)
        spacing: 100(i)(s)
        foundry: "unknown"(s)
        antialias: False(s)
        file: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/sgiscreen-9x20.bdf"(s)
        index: 0(i)(s)
        outline: False(s)
        scalable: False(s)
        charset:
    (s)
        lang: (s)
        fontversion: 0(i)(s)
        fontformat: "BDF"(s)
        decorative: False(s)
        hash: "sha256:93790602774ac93f6f25513db530d9b03d3860918c7975eeaa66838cf959c43d"(s)
        postscriptname: "sgiscreen-9x20"(s)

a few attempts to load it:

    # kmscon --font-name sgiscreen-9x20
    # kmscon --font-name sgiscreen-9x20 --font-size 20 --font-dpi 72 

...does not load. I'm wondering what directory to drop this bdf file
in and what commands to run to have it recognized & loaded by kmscon.

Thanks for any help,

John

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