Xorg Fonts

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-517

### Chapter 24. Graphical Environments

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# Xorg Fonts

## Introduction to Xorg Fonts

The Xorg font packages provide some scalable fonts and supporting packages for Xorg applications. Many people will want to install other TTF or OTF fonts in addition to, or instead of, these. Some are listed at the section called “TTF and OTF fonts”.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://www.x.org/pub/individual/font/

- Download size: 3.0 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 8.8 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

### Xorg Fonts Dependencies

#### Required

xcursor-themes-1.0.7

## Downloading Xorg Fonts

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

    cat > font-7.md5 << "EOF"
    42ea8cc91549e43e9251ccbd664e7864  font-util-1.4.2.tar.xz
    a56b1a7f2c14173f71f010225fa131f1  encodings-1.1.0.tar.xz
    dd1a744b97eb6d388d4e78b17011193e  font-alias-1.0.6.tar.xz
    546d17feab30d4e3abcf332b454f58ed  font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.5.tar.xz
    063bfa1456c8a68208bf96a33f472bb1  font-bh-ttf-1.0.4.tar.xz
    51a17c981275439b85e15430a3d711ee  font-bh-type1-1.0.4.tar.xz
    00f64a84b6c9886040241e081347a853  font-ibm-type1-1.0.4.tar.xz
    fe972eaf13176fa9aa7e74a12ecc801a  font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.5.tar.xz
    3b47fed2c032af3a32aad9acc1d25150  font-xfree86-type1-1.0.5.tar.xz
    EOF

To download the needed files using Wget-1.25.0, use the following commands:

    mkdir font &&
    cd font &&
    grep -v '^#' ../font-7.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
        -B https://www.x.org/pub/individual/font/ &&
    md5sum -c ../font-7.md5

## Installation of Xorg Fonts

### Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

1. Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).

2. Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.9.17p2 package.

3. Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

One way to handle this situation is to create a short bash function that automatically selects the appropriate method. Once the command is set in the environment, it does not need to be set again.

    as_root()
    {
      if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
      elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
      else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
      fi
    }

    export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

    bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

    for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../font-7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
    do
      packagedir=${package%.tar.?z*}
      tar -xf $package
      pushd $packagedir
        ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
        make
        as_root make install
      popd
      as_root rm -rf $packagedir
    done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

    exit

When all of the fonts have been installed, the system must be configured so that Fontconfig can find the TrueType fonts. Since the fonts are outside of the default search path of several packages if `XORG_PREFIX` is not `/usr`, make symlinks to the Xorg TrueType font directories in `/usr/share/fonts` by running the following commands as the `root` user:

    install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts                               &&
    ln -svfn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF &&
    ln -svfn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF

## Contents

Installed Programs: bdftruncate and ucs2any
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: `$XORG_PREFIX`/share/fonts

### Short Descriptions

bdftruncate | generates a truncated BDF font from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font
ucs2any | generates BDF fonts in any encoding from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font

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