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> On Mar 27, 2015, at 4:15, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 50x9+0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & |
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> /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & |
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> exec /usr/bin/icewm > ~/.icewm.log 2>&1 |
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> Some time ago, somebody decided to deprecate iso8859-1 fonts. And |
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> when I run startx, the text console comes up with |
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Why not use some new TTF? Put the config to ~/Xdefaults: |
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XTerm*faceName: Liberation Mono XTerm*faceSize: 12 |
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> xterms come up with some dinky little font. It's bad enough on a 24 |
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> in 1920x1080 monitor. On an 11" 1366x768 netbook, it's unreadable. |
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> When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the |
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> xterm crashes. |
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X server abjusts font sizes according to the DPI value. The DPI value it calculates might be wrong though: bad EDID most likely. Set the DPI value in you Xorg.conf file to make the fonts in constant size. |
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> One of the nice things about having multiple machines, is that I still |
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> had another machine with the old fonts. For a few years, I've preserved |
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> a copy of /usr/share/fonts from that machine as fonts_do_not_delete. So |
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> each time fonts are "updated" on my machines, I rename /usr/share/fonts |
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> to /usr/share/fonts.borken and copy the fonts_do_not_delete directory as |
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> /usr/share/fonts. |
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CONFIG_PROTECT the directory or make the fonts immutable so they don't get removed. chattr +i |
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> OK, so whats supposed to be "the right way" to get working xterms with |
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> lucidasanstypewriter-12? |
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-Matti |
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