I'm having trouble getting fonts recognised.
I've installed the base edition of the current raspbian, plus sundry extra packages including the X11 base fonts. The intent is to run headless with (realvnc's) vncserver active, and that's what I'm using to test.
Unfortunately, xterm only shows one font size available, and the vnc log shows lookup failures on the font files: Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1" /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1"
xlsfonts shows only a few fonts:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 cursor fixed
yet fc-list shows a whole slew of fonts including: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/c059013l.pfb: Century Schoolbook L:style=Roman /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/d050000l.pfb: Dingbats:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021023l.pfb: Nimbus Roman No9 L:style=Regular Italic /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019063l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010013l.pfb: URW Gothic L:style=Book
I've run fontconfig as well as mkfontdir, to no avail. I confess to a certain uncertainty about how all the font stuff fits together :-}
I'm at a loss. I've obviously missed/misunderstood something fundamental, but can anyone suggest what please?
Thanks.