Bug#344776: xterm: menu labels are displayed in a very large font
reassign 344776 xorg-x11
retitle 344776 Incorrect Speedo/fonts.dir leads to incorrect font selection
thanks
(resent since I forgot to Cc control@bugs.debian.org -- sorry)
> On 2005-12-26 17:46:09 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I also noticed that the default fontsize is different in XFree86 vs
> > Xorg.
>
> I've found the cause of the problem. I have
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
>
> in my font path, and I get the following error:
>
> ay:~> xset fp= /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
> zsh: exit 255 xset fp= /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
>
> If I remove this directory from my font path, then the fonts are OK.
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo does contain a fonts.dir file:
>
> 24
> font0648.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> font0648.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
> font0648.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> font0649.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> font0649.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
> font0649.spd -bitstream-charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> font0709.spd -bitstream-charter-black-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> font0709.spd -bitstream-charter-black-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
> font0709.spd -bitstream-charter-black-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> font0710.spd -bitstream-charter-black-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> font0710.spd -bitstream-charter-black-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
> font0710.spd -bitstream-charter-black-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> font0419.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> font0419.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> font0419.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
> font0582.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> font0582.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> font0582.spd -bitstream-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
> font0583.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> font0583.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> font0583.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
> font0611.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> font0611.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> font0611.spd -bitstream-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
>
> However there aren't any fonts in this directory.
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz says:
>
> xorg-x11 (6.8.2.dfsg.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> [...]
> * Speedo fonts have been removed from the Debian X.Org packages. They are
> slated to be removed from the upstream distribution as well soon, and they
> seem to have very few users.
>
> but there has been no clean-up of the fonts.dir when upgrading from
> Xfree86 to X.Org.
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