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I can't find any documentation on how to add new fonts to VcXsrv. I found this but this is for a different program (Xming) and though I followed all the steps the fonts still doesn't show up in the X-server application (I'm trying with Terminator).

Any idea how to get it working?

laurent
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The author of VcXsrv himself answered part of this question here.

Currently the default font path is fonts/misc/,fonts/TTF/,fonts/OTF,fonts/Type1/,fonts/100dpi/,fonts/75dpi/,fonts/cyrillic/,fonts/Speedo/,built-ins

When you want to add an extra one, you should add it to this list and pass it on the command line with the -fp option:

-fp fonts/terminus-font/,fonts/misc/,fonts/TTF/,fonts/OTF,fonts/Type1/,fonts/100dpi/,fonts/75dpi/,fonts/cyrillic/,fonts/Speedo/,built-ins

The specified directories are relative to the directory where vcxsrv.exe is (default C:\Program Files\vcxsrv)

You can also add the directory to the font path with the xset +fp command: xset +fp fonts/terminus-font

For using Windows 10 fonts, it might need a few more steps. The main steps of Xming to create fonts.scale and fonts.dir are still valid. When starting VcXsrv you should follow marha’s instructions in his answer and add C:/Windows/Fonts, within the -fp argument list. (Notice that you must use forward slash / instead of backward slash \ in the path.)

If this still doesn’t work, try Cygwin/X. The performance is not as good as VcXsrv but it works well. Most of all, all the X tools are compatible to VcXsrv. You can use a lot of X command line tools (like xset +fp ...) to configure VcXsrv after it has started.

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