On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:11:25AM +0100, Geir Torstein Kristiansen wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:16:58 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, let's get all of the facts. > > > > Are you using a locale other than C? > > locale says everything is set to "en_US" > > > What version of X? > > XFree86 version: 4.1.0 > resolution: 72x72 dots per inch > > > Are you using a font server or are the fonts directly read by X? > > I have FontPath "unix/:7100" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and xfs running (default > in rh 7.2) > > > What fonts exhbit this problem? > > The fonts contained in most of the themes here: > > http://artwiz.artramp.org/index.phtml?section=art_themes > http://bb.nlc.no/themes.html > > But for a specific example look at this theme: http://www.themes.org/themes/662/ > > It's using the mints-mild font. Here is how it's supposed to look: > http://www.themes.org/themes/662/screenshot/ > > And here is how it looks here (but notice how the aterm displays the font > correctly?): http://home.online.no/~geir37/bb-big-fonts.png > > > Are true type fonts also being used? > > Yes, it seems so. > > Snip from /etc/X11/fs/config > > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1, > /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType, > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts, > /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType > > > Any other info you may have is welcome. > > I think every default RedHat 7.2 install will have this problem :( > The system is a typical install of Redhat 7.2 with all updates applied (X > configured during install) > > The fonts are installed with: > 1. cp *.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi > 2. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi && mkfontdir && xset fp rehash > 3. /etc/init.d/xfs restart > 4. I then restart X > > I used to have the *.pcf fonts from the themes in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > before when I had RedHat 7.1 and I had the same problem then. > > All the *.pcf fonts will have the correct size in Aterm, Eterm and xterm. > > Let me know if more info is needed. Might be the best way to reproduce it is to > find a RedHat 7.2 box, dunno.
This will occur on any box with a loacle other than C. The problem is that then blackbox uses fontsets, and these fonts don't fill the entire fontset. The remainder of the fontset is filled with "fixed" and so the fonts are all bigger. There are a few workarounds listed in this list's archives. xOr -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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