Re: Dosemu practically full-screen

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Rafe,

On 12/03/2012 09:24 AM, Raphael wrote:
> Are you happy with the result?

Yes, I am, but I am used to using a windowed Xy4.
> Having said that, just playing around with the nonscaling xfonts that
> are available makes me curious to try the MS fonts out. However, I'd
> actually be more interested in the explanation than copying your fixed
> setup or trying it out blind -- I was getting ready to escalate to the
> dosemu listserv -- for one thing, I really want to know why these
> fonts never seem to register on my system, and I'm quite curious how
> you worked through it
Years ago, in 10.04 I'm pretty sure, I lost Deja Vu and other fonts that
I was used to having available for Dosemu. I did a lot of reading online
about making fonts available to X, and tried out xfs (X font server) and
defoma (debian font manager) and somehow somewhere along the way I may
have picked up access to Andale Mono (or it may have had nothing to do
with me -- I was stumbling around without a lot of knowledge). But in
any case, I revisited xfs and defoma on Sunday, and did some reading
online again, and discovered where defoma's directories were, which I'd
never known before. In /var/lib/defoma's subdirectories I discovered
x-ttcidfont-conf.d (folder), whose subcontents included a link to Andale
Mono and fonts.scale and fonts.dir files with references similar to:

Andale_Mono.ttf -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
I knew that these fonts.* files were important to making the fonts
available to X from my earlier and recent reading, but that's the sum of
my knowledge, except that lines like the above were the sort of output I
was looking for when I ran xlsfonts ....|sort|uniq> scalable_fonts. So I
figured that here, in /var/lib/defoma, was where I was getting my 12.04
Andale Mono for Dosemu from (from previous rooting around in
/usr/share/fonts I knew that I'd never found the right fonts.* files
there). I guess that in installing 12.04 over 10.04 I'd retained access
to Andale Mono that I'd acquired in 10.04, which may be why I have it in
12.04 and you don't.
So, in 12.10 I installed defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf, which recreated
the directory structure of /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d, but did
not recreate the link to Andale Mono or the fonts.* files. So I went
with my other option, which was to copy from one computer to the other
the defoma files, via a defoma.tar.gz file, replacing all the contents
of /var/lib/defoma in 12.10 (the directory structure that the defoma etc
installation had created in 12.10 was the same, but with fewer folders
and no files). And things worked.
I've since recalled that on my wife's portable I'd left 8.04 installed
alongside 10.04 when I upgrade her machine, and looking there today
discovered in /var/lib/defoma/... links to DejaVu and other fonts I used
to have. I don't know if I can incorporate or somehow use the settings
from 8.04 to access DejaVu in Dosemu again, but I've compressed her old
/var/lib/defoma directory for playing with at sometime in the future.

Paul