Re: More problems with xfstt

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu>]

Thanks for this pointer - as it turns out, you're right; a barcode font
was the first returned when xfstt was on.  I've fixed it like this; a
hack, but it makes things work right:

1.) Make a new font directory:
mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default

2.) Put the default font in it:
cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default
ln -s ../misc/10x20.pcf.gz

3.) Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Files"
        RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/default/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/default/"
        FontPath        "unix/:7101"
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"
...


That causes non-picky applications (e.g., those that just use the first
font available) to be assigned the default (10x20), since it's the first
one returned by the fonts system.

Thanks for your help,
Andy

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu> writes:
> 
> > But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi
> > and xfontsel.  In both of these places, all buttons and menus are
> > displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone without
> > a photographic memory.
> 
> If you don't specify a default font for many apps, they'll choose the
> first one they see in the list.  This is often bad.  Unfortunately, I
> know of no way to change the order of the list (it's not based on
> directory order in the search path, afaict), so I just added a 
> 
> *font: fixed
> 
> to my .Xdefaults.
> 
> The reason it happens only on one machine and not the other, and only
> with xfstt, is that you have a TT font on one machine but not the
> other, and that's the one that showing up.
> 
> Or, that's as far as I can tell.
> 
> -- 
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
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