No unicode and no matrix font

I recently reinstalled my arch linux system and I found that unicode and matrix font (cmatrix -l) doesnt work in rxvt-unicode. Using "cmatrix -l" in the regular tty terminal works but neither does unicode. When I try to view Japanese texts it outputs garbage. I installed the asian fonts suggested in the fonts page in the wiki.

zowki wrote:
I have matrix.fnt in these locations:
/etc/fonts/matrix.fnt
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/matrix.fnt
It seems to only work in TTY terminals. Is it because matrix.fnt is a terminal only font?
Here I actually have mtx font in the standard path:
$ pacman -Ql cmatrix
cmatrix /usr/
cmatrix /usr/bin/
cmatrix /usr/bin/cmatrix
cmatrix /usr/man/
cmatrix /usr/man/man1/
cmatrix /usr/man/man1/cmatrix.1.gz
cmatrix /usr/share/
cmatrix /usr/share/fonts/
cmatrix /usr/share/fonts/misc/
cmatrix /usr/share/fonts/misc/mtx.pcf
cmatrix /usr/share/kbd/
cmatrix /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/
cmatrix /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/matrix.fnt
cmatrix /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/matrix.psf.gz
Note this line: /usr/share/fonts/misc/mtx.pcf
But this font doesn't present in /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir so I can't use it.
I copied this font file out into a directory and tried to add the font manually. Say:
$ cp mtx.pcf ~/.fonts
and then run these in ~/.fonts directory:
$ cd ~/.fonts
$ mkfontdir
$ xset fp+ ~/.fonts
$ fc-cache
This makes the font available to the X server. But urxvt refuses to use it:
$ urxvt -fn "mtx"
unable to deduce codeset, ignoring font 'mtx'
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.
$ urxvt -fn "xft:mtx"
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'mtx:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.
On the other hand xterm is happy with this font, just type in xterm -fn mtx and it works. And
cmatrix also works fine. So I think you need to do something before you can use it with urxvt.
Maybe edit it using fontforge?
Please point out if I missed something.
Last edited by eirika (2009-10-02 15:34:41)

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