frustrating artwiz font problems

[vvuiverine]

Whatever I try artwiz fonts will not work. I have googled and googled but still have not come up with a solution.

This is what I have done so far:
unpacked tar archine into /usr/lib/X11/fonts
ran fc-cache -fv in artwiz font dir
added font path to xorg.conf
added entry in /etc/fonts/local.conf
added export LC=C to .bashrc
added explort LC_ALL=C to .bashrc

all artwiz fonts show up in xfontsel but are not availible to the system.

sytem: latest realese of Debian Sarge
window manager: fluxbox

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[oz]

I've never used the artwiz fonts so can't say for sure, but you might want to take a look at this wiki. It's really for Gentoo, but there might be something in it that will give you a clue to the problem:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

Hope it helps.

[vvuiverine]

Thanks for the reply.

I will have a read of that article. Perhaps if i research X font support a bit more a solution may be found.

[vvuiverine]

Finally. I have got them to work

Apparently the Debian binary of fontconfig does not support bitmap fonts by default. To enable bitmap fonts on a Debian system simply:
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

and answer all the questions

[oz]

Hey, glad you got it working and thanks for reporting back with the fix. Lots of users fail to do that.

[Snowscape]

I just found this thread with google, and tried setting up xfonts-artwiz on Debian Etch.
Unfortunately the suggested method (running `dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig`) didn't work.
So I looked around for a while and noticed that I also had fontconfig-config installed.
So I tried to reconfigure that, and it worked! I could enable bitmap support yada-yada.
Hopefully this'll help people solve any future problems >.<

Btw; I signed up just for this
Btw; Thanks for this thread in the first place!