On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > Alex> > Alex> What all of you are talking about? Most X servers won't even start if > Alex> the font alias "fixed" isn't defined, so "fixed", not "*-fixed-*" should > Alex> be the last-resort fallback. Most of people have it set to the default > Alex> fixed font with iso8859-1 charset, and some (me, for example) to the > same > Alex> with local charset (koi8-r in my case). *-fixed-* on my box also returns > Alex> "-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0", so it's > Alex> hardly an uncommon setup. > > Thpe problem is that > 1. "fixed" is not a valid basename
So? This is the fallback font, the goal is just to get anything that is likely to be readable. > 2. "fixed" could be of not desired charset as "*-fixed-*" is for you. > "fixed" _might_ be of not desired charset. "*-fixed-*" almost always isn't, unless the only available charset is the one desired, what automatically makes "fixed" optimal. -- Alex -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
