kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

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.

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1. 

   Dan

   Blasphemy! Everyone knows that the best terminal font is Terminus..

   Saturday May 17, 2008 at 6:37 am
2. 

   Vsantos

   If you need iso8859 characters try these:

   http://artwiz-latin1.sourceforge.net

   they also have a bold version of each font.

   Saturday May 17, 2008 at 7:22 am
3. 

   Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

   @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! =:)

   Saturday May 17, 2008 at 12:57 pm
4. 

   Paul Walsh

   Thanks for this tip, Jason!

   Sunday May 18, 2008 at 10:16 am
5. 

   Tim

   Thanks!

   I don’t know why they dropped these fonts in the repos, but this is very cool

   Tim

   Sunday May 18, 2008 at 10:26 am
6. 

   Pax

   Artwiz…I remember him! I wonder what he’s up to…

   Sunday May 18, 2008 at 4:49 pm