[Xastir] Font troubles

[Patrick Domack]

I have noticed the same thing, the new code uses a smaller font on my  
system. But I like it better though.

Quoting Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:06PM -0700, we recorded a   
> bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor,   
> containing:
>>
>> Yet another idea would be to use
>> "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" as the default font.  Here
>> we specify only the parameters that are important and leave the rest
>> to the system.  In fact near the top of main.c:main() you'll see
>> "*.fontList: -misc-fixed-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*".  This font gets
>> used if we don't set the font.  But we do set the font.
>
> BTW, when I built and started using the new code, I found that this choice of
> default fixed font was significantly different from what "fixed"   
> used to be on
> all of my systems.  The menus started being ridiculously tiny.  Fortunately,
> the new code allowed me to change it pretty easily, but that was a bit of a
> surprise after years of having the menus be readable by default.  I had to
> push the font size up to 14 point just to be able to get it back to what
> it had been before these changes so I could read the screen without my
> reading glasses.
>
> Pity that some systems aren't providing a reliable and unique meaning for
> "fixed."
>
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