Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:27:19 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+0000), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm.
> > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log in.
>
> Perhaps now moot, I think that's an unusual X start-up. For example,
> I can't find any reference to .xinitrc in /etc/X11/, as opposed to
> .xsession.
~/.xinitrc is the traditional (read: obsolete) file used by startx.
In Debian, ~/.xsession is preferred for both xdm and startx, in an
attempt to unify the two. I think it's succeeded fairly well, at least
for people who *only* run Debian, and don't share their HOME directory
with some other OS where startx doesn't read ~/.xsession.
If you do share your HOME directory across multiple OSes (and use
startx), you probably want to make ~/.xinitrc a symlink to ~/.xsession,
or vice versa. I'm not aware of any systems where that would cause
problems.
hobbit:~$ grep -r xinitrc /etc/X11
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:# global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx)
hobbit:~$ less /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#
# global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx)
# invoke global X session script
. /etc/X11/Xsession
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