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- From: heiney@pa.dec.com (Bob Heiney)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: X11 fonts
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:55:26 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1993Jan27.170325.22637@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
- srmorin@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Steven R Morin) writes:
- >
- > I recently installed the X11R4 PXG server on a DECstation 5000/200.
- >I'm having trouble with some fonts. When I'm logged in, and do an xset -q,
- >it says that the default font path is
- >
- >/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT/
- >
- >but the server cannot access the font 7x13 that is located in the
- >/usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT directory.
-
- See section 4.4.8.4 "Sample Font Alias Files" of the ULTRIX 4.2A release
- notes.
-
- Basically you would
-
- cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT
- cp fonts.alias fonts.alias.sav
- cp fonts.alias-mit fonts.alias
- xset fp rehash
-
- The key is to have "FILE_NAMES_ALIASES" as a line in the "fonts.alias"
- file in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT. This allows "7x13", which is the
- filename minus the ".pcf" suffix, to be an alias for the font. The real
- name of the "7x13" font is
-
- -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
-
- which is why you want an alias!
-
- /Bob
- --
- Bob Heiney ( heiney@pa.dec.com )
- Technical Consultant
- Digital Equipment Corporation, US Desktop Sales, Palo Alto, CA
- All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer
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