[Xastir] Font troubles

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote:

> FWIW, on all of my FreeBSD and Linux systems, the file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias shows the "fixed" alias to be:
>
> fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

Here are my two:

/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-koi8-r
/usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1


> So for purposes of not violating the "principle of least surprise" for
> users who are going to upgrade from a previous released version, perhaps
> the default should be a 13 point fixed font when the font can't be read from
> the config file.

Sure, I'm fine with that.

I really wish there was only one "fixed" font alias on my system as
distributed:  I'd have set the default to that.  My X11 books state
that the "fixed" alias should be present on any X11 system.  Well,
that's true, but it's unusable because I have two.

I'll see if the system will let me get rid of the cyrillic font (I
didn't specifically choose it, so some package must depend on it).

It may not.  If it lets me, I wouldn't be against changing to
"fixed" for the default SYSTEM and the backup STATION fonts.  Having
the mfg fix the problem in the distributed Linux systems seems like
a good idea.  I'm getting rather tired of working around other
people's problems.  This is OpenSUSE-11.0 BTW.

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