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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:04:28
Message-Id: CAKpSnpLGOtBfc0xnq7JYY6xDZEKMxhpvzwCmNyJxQhMbM8POhw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu by lee
1 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4
5 >>
6 >> It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp
7 >> in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before
8 >> /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to understand what happens
9 >> rather than blindly apply a fix, but anyway.
10 >
11 > Does xterm use different fonts for the menu depending on in which order
12 > the directories appear in the font path?
13 >
14 >
15 The menu has the same fonts when the first in the path is
16 /usr/share/fonts/100dpi or /usr/share/fonts/Type1/; when
17 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi it uses smaller fonts. So it seems that it
18 wants /usr/share/fonts/?dpi. But if /usr/share/fonts/misc/ comes
19 first, xterm crashes.
20
21 Jorge

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Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu lee <lee@××××××××.de>