On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:56:32PM +0200, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote: > This also doesn't explain why the font looks so ugly. Every character > is in the upper left region of a rectangular box, with quite a lot of > space between the characters. This sounds more like you don't have any monospaced font that your xft configuration can fall back to, and it's substituting a proportional one. Proportional fonts will sometimes work for a basic xterm, although they usually look pretty strange, but they won't work right at all using Xft. Usually it looks like things are double-spaced. Xterm *asks* for a particular font, but Xft can pretty much do whatever it wants based on the configuration file. Debian's default /etc/X11/XftConfig will replace any request xterm makes for '-fa fixed' with "mono", which it doesn't alias again later on so I'm not quite sure what you'd end up with. Probably one of the Vera fonts, if you have those installed. Remember too that you can't pass an XLFD via '-fa'... xterm isn't going to like that at all. Snerf around the 'net and find a copy of the 'Andale Mono' or 'Monotype.com' TTF fonts. They'll look pretty good for you. -- Marc Wilson | A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will msw@cox.net | protect the fuse by blowing first.
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