[Xastir] Font troubles

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:13:05PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <patrickdk at patrickdk.com> flavor, containing:
> I have noticed the same thing, the new code uses a smaller font on my  
> system. But I like it better though.

I like the *code* better (because I get to pick my own fonts to my heart's 
content), but the default made for an unpleasant surprise after an upgrade.
But at least I didn't experience crashes like some folks are.

> 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.  

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