Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)
on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this
> problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently
> posted solutions.
>
> Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident several weeks ago).
> I tried reordering the FontPath lines in the X config file. Then I
> got some messed up fonts in X and the warning that the Type1 and
> Speedo directories weren't valid FontPaths. The visual problem is
> that in gnome-terminal, gvim, and x-chat the font is way too big now.
I had what at least sounds like the same problem after an X
upgrade---huge ugly fonts all over the place. It drove me up the
walls. I tried all sorts of increasingly desperate strategems, but the
resolution turned out to be embarrassingly straightforward. At some
point XF86Config-4 was overwritten in such a way that the font-path
for the 100dpi fonts was ordered before the font-path for the 75dpi
fonts in the `Files' section. I'm not sure how or when this happened
but when I reversed the order, all returned to normal.
You say that you tried reordering the font-path lines, but it wasn't
clear to me what changes exactly you made, so I thought it might be
worth passing on my own experience.
The only consolation for me was that before I hit on the stupidly
obvious right answer, I had learned a lot about font-management under
X. Sigh,
Jim
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