Use Adobe Helvetica as the sans serif user
interface font (among others, dtlogin, front
panel buttons, menu titles) instead of Lucida.
While there, move X Consortium comment back
to the top.
This change applies only to FreeBSD.
The following patch gets the Lucida Sans font working on my FreeBSD system. Before applying this, title bars and menu bars are displayed in the "-misc-fixed" font. This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3.
The following font families
(or their aliases) will be used:
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--*-
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--*-
-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--*-
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-
-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-
-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-
-adobe-times-bold-i-normal--*-
-adobe-times-bold-r-normal--*-
-adobe-times-medium-i-normal--*-
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-
-b&h-lucidasans-medium-r-normal-sans-*-
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-*-
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-*-
The files will be installed in
/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C
This directory should be added to the
X server font path:
xset fp+ /usr/dt/config/xfonts/C
and/or via
FontPath "/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C"
in the "Files" section of the xorg.conf file.
Note, this requires that the xfonts-100dpi and
xfonts-100dpi-transcode[d] packages be installed. Kubuntu 11.10 calls
the transcoded package 'xfonts-100dpi-transcoded' while 12.04 calls it
'xfonts-100dpi-transcode'
You can also use the 75dpi variants if you wish, though they will look
crappy on larger monitors (>1024x768).
Note, these still aren't quie working yet. Notably, font.dir needs to
be generated properly and re-committed so they will be used.
mkfontdir is used to do this, but currently it fails on these
font.alias files (does not recognize them).
Ulrich Wilkens