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.
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