On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > I installed Potato on a laptop, and the fonts are mishaped under X. The > fonts are uneven throughout an xterm. All the applications seem to > inherit the same problem. I have played a little with the fontpath in > XF86Config, but that wasn't good enough. Has anyone encountered the same > pb before? If there are different fonts changing at random in the same xterm, then something is messed up. At few things you can try: 1. Set the font for xterm explicitly by adding xterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 to ~/.Xdefaults. (Choose another font if desired.) Be sure to use 'xrdb ~/.Xdefaults' to install the new resource into the running X server. 2. Comment out the scaled bitmap font entries in /etc/X11/XF86Config like so: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" 3. Verify that xfonts-base is installed. > How can I know what X is using for default font? In each font directory there are files 'fonts.alias' and 'fonts.dir'; these define name-to-file mappings. The default font is fixed. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
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