On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Geir Torstein Kristiansen wrote: > Hmm, weird. I had that problem with RedHat 7.1 too. The fonts seem to > load but they are way to big in blackbox. They show up ok in aterm/Eterm > though. This is a longstanding known problem which has been annoying a > lot of people for a long time as far as I know. > > Oddly enough the font problem shows up in Redhat/Mandrake but not in > Slackware/Debian which makes me believe that either something is > different in the xfs setup in the distros (I have looked for it but could > not find it) or something could be done in Blackbox do remedy this > problem. The fact that the fonts load ok in aterm/Eterm makes me positive > that something could be done with Blackbox itself.
Not all distros use xfs, Slackware being one of them. Maybe bypassing xfs could help the problem. I've never had a problem with the custom fonts on Slack. --gile -- "Do the RedHat guys get off on making things difficult?"
