Font fail

I've got a misbehaving font. The font in question is proggy tiny (easily found via google.)
I'm certain the font is installed correctly, as demonstrated by:
fc-list | grep -i proggy
ProggyTiny.pcf:style=Regular
and
xlsfonts | grep -i proggy
-windows-proggytiny-medium-r-normal--0-0-96-96-c-0-iso8859-1
-windows-proggytiny-medium-r-normal--10-80-96-96-c-60-iso8859-1
The main source of trouble is that this is supposed to be my xterm font but is not working. In my ~/.Xdefaults:
xterm*geometry: 105x56
xterm*font: -*-proggytiny-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*boldMode: false
However, xterm defaults to some other crappy font. Additionally, it spits out to STDOUT:
xterm
xterm: cannot load font -*-proggytiny-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm: cannot load font -*-proggytiny-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Further, xfontsel lists the font as expected, but selecting the font causes the app to misbehave, and the font is not displayed at the bottom as it should be.
I'm certain that this font is not corrupted. It was scp'ed from a machine where it works as expected, and I've verified that the md5sums match.
Any ideas?
Last edited by stephelton (2009-12-12 16:35:36)

Installing from aur worked. There's absolutely no difference in the file -- same permissions, location, size, md5 checksum.... it works, though, so thanks for the tip..!
Perhaps I had a stale cache of a bad version of it or something to that effect.

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