Re: X fonts

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Friday 17 July 1998, at 1 h 24, the keyboard of Chris 
<chris@ormond.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts,
> however most of these do not appear to work for terminals (resulting in a
> very distorted - usually streached - terminal).  Also, the selection seems

I have the problem and doesn't know the solution. But I assume it's only 
for proportional fonts, not for fixed ones? I personnally use 
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1 
(standard X font, shipped with Debian). (The '-m-' means monospace, fixed 
width.)

> fairly limited, and when I add extra font packages (such as xfntscl -
> supposively scalable fonts) there apears to be no change to the list.

Check the FontPath directives of your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Here are mine:

   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont"
   FontPath   "/opt/lib/fonts/TTbdf"
   FontPath   "unix/:7100"

(The last one is for the xfstt server, in a Debian package. It allows you 
too use TrueType fonts with X.)




--  
Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null