title: Cant force urxvt load font, no matter what (unable to load base fontset)
body: <p>I want to urxvt load <code>DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline</code> font, but it dont work with <code>xft</code> no matter what.</p>
  
  <p>Excerpt from <code>~/.Xresources</code> <a href="https://github.com/BjornMelgaard/dotfiles/blob/painmode/Xresources#L70-L77" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from my dotfiles</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>! this work
  ! URxvt.font: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-u
  
  ! none of these - dont
  ! URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Book:size=12
  ! URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Book:size=12
  ! URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:size=12
  ! URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I use <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-patched/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rxvt-unicode-patched</a> version from aur</p>
  
  <p>Lets check if all right</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ urxvt --help 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep options                          
  options: perl,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm
  
  $ fc-match "DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline" 
  DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline" "Book"
  
  $ fc-list G "DejaVu Sans Mono"
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVu Sans Mono Bold for Powerline.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Bold
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVu Sans Mono Oblique for Powerline.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Oblique
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Book
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVu Sans Mono Bold Oblique for Powerline.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:style=Bold Oblique
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
  
  $ xset q
  Keyboard Control:
    auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
    XKB indicators:
      00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
      03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
      06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
      09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
      12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
    auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
    auto repeating keys:  00fdffffdffffbbf
                          fedfffefffedffff
                          9fffffffffffffff
                          fff7ffffffffffff
    bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
  Pointer Control:
    acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
  Screen Saver:
    prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
    timeout:  0    cycle:  600
  Colors:
    default colormap:  0x22    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
  Font Path:
    /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,built-ins
  DPMS (Energy Star):
    Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
    DPMS is Disabled
  
  /etc/fonts/conf.d $ ll
  total 8
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   44 Jan 10 11:07 10-hinting-slight.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   48 Jan 10 11:07 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   43 Jan 13 22:10 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   47 Jan 13 22:10 11-lcdfilter-default.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   46 Oct 31 11:34 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 31 11:34 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   47 Oct 31 11:34 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   47 Jan 10 11:07 20-unhint-small-vera.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   44 Jan 10 11:07 30-metric-aliases.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   41 Jan 10 11:07 30-urw-aliases.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 Jan 12 20:08 31-cantarell.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/31-cantarell.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 Jan 10 11:07 40-nonlatin.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   40 Jun 16  2015 44-source-han-sans-kr.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/44-source-han-sans-kr.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 Jan 10 11:07 45-latin.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/45-latin.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 Jan 10 11:07 49-sansserif.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 Jan 10 11:07 50-user.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 Jan 10 11:07 51-local.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 Oct 31 11:34 57-dejavu-sans.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 Oct 31 11:34 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 Oct 31 11:34 57-dejavu-serif.conf -&gt; ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-serif.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 Jan 10 11:07 60-latin.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/60-latin.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   43 Jan 10 11:07 65-fonts-persian.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 Jan 10 11:07 65-nonlatin.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   37 Jan 10 11:07 69-unifont.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 Jan 10 11:07 80-delicious.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1565 Jan 12 22:26 81-ubuntu.conf
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 Jan 10 11:07 90-synthetic.conf -&gt; /etc/fonts/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  978 Jan 10 11:07 README
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources &amp;&amp; urxvt
  urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>xrdb -query -all</code> at that time <a href="http://pastebin.com/BaBGhuY1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> </p>
  
  <p>Why?!</p>