Sanity Restored: Artwiz Fonts in Kubuntu Hardy May 17
I switched from SUSE 10.3 to Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) just this evening. It’s always good to get a feel for how the various distros are doing. Anyway, it took me a bit of digging to figure out how to get the artwiz fonts (smoothansi, in particular) to work as my konsole font. Thanks to this article for the help! Couple of notes: Ubuntu Hardy doesn’t ship xfonts-artwiz anymore, apparently. Download them from this sourceforge project. The trick is to tell fontconfig to use bitmapped fonts by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config.
Dan May 17
Blasphemy! Everyone knows that the best terminal font is Terminus..
Vsantos May 17
If you need iso8859 characters try these:
http://artwiz-latin1.sourceforge.net
they also have a bold version of each font.
Jason ‘vanRijn’ Kasper May 17
@Dan: Wow, cool! I didn’t know Terminus existed. I think I still like smoothansi better, personally.
@Vsantos: Awesome! Thanks! I didn’t know that project existed either. =:) Although, now that I got the other ones working, I’m not sure I need the latin1 ones. Thanks though! =:)
Paul Walsh May 18
Thanks for this tip, Jason!
Tim May 18
Thanks!
I don’t know why they dropped these fonts in the repos, but this is very cool
Tim
Pax May 18
Artwiz…I remember him! I wonder what he’s up to…