Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:09:44PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:

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> I think this means that xterm -fa uses FreeType2 and the configuration
> in /etc/fonts/.

And I think this means you're wrong, since:

rei $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 
        libXft.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 (0x40025000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x4004f000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x400bb000)
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x400c4000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4011f000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40135000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40186000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4018f000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x401a6000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401b6000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401c4000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4028a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402c9000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x403fb000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4040d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Funny how it looks like xterm is using Xft1, isn't it?  Xterm doesn't start
using Xft2 until XF430.

Xterm couldn't care less about what fontconfig thinks it can see.  Xterm
cares a whole lot about what Xft1 can see.

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