on Mon, 2 Jul 2012 Ravi Uday <raviu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I have attached a png shot with 1680x1050 display.
> I am not sure how to find what fonts I am using.. Pls let me know any
> commands i could use on my lds server.
It looks to me as if you are running ctwm remotely on an Apple of some
sort using VNC. In that case the Xwindow clients (e.g. xterm and other
programs) are using the Xwindow server on your Apple. The server may not
have all the fonts you have specified.
The fonts have to be loaded on the machine running the display, not the
machine running the remote applications (at least that's the case in
every example I have tried.)
Apologies if I have misunderstood your screen shot.
In my ancient messy .ctwmrc files (linked here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/laptop/linux-desk-top-environments.html )
I specify fonts for title bars. My Viglen PC uses an LG display
with resolution 1920x1080 pixels (shown in output of 'xdpyinfo').
But it looks as if you don't have a problem with characters on your
title bars, only inside the console windows you are running. What are
they?
Could you try running an xterm window (you may have to install xterm if
it is not provided), e.g. using a command like:
xterm -fn 10x20
xterm -fn 9x15
xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
If you want to find out which fonts you have (fixed and proportional)
run 'xfontsel' (http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xfontsel.1.html)
You may have to install (on your mac, for use with your xserver) some
fixed width font package that is not installed by default.
When you have found a font that works you may be able to use
~~/.Xdefaults to specify that your application should use it.
E.g. I have this default for xterm windows:
XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20
and some others for larger and smaller fonts invoked in xterm using
the font menu (CTRL + right button).
Apologies if I have misunderstood, or if my Fedora experiences are
irrelevant to the version of linux you are using.
Aaron
