On Sep 09, 1998, Ted Harding wrote:
On 09-Sep-98 Milan Hromada Unix-technik wrote:
Can anydody tell me what means this ?
courO14-l2.pcf.Z -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
courO14-l2.pcf.Z The name of a compressed font definition file (probably somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/)
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................ You should also find a file fonts.alias which gives a short name for the font with the long X11 name (as above): for most applications you can use the short alias as well as the long X11 name to designate the font to be used, provided this file is in place.
Great exposition, Ted. Now for a couple of questions inspired by your post: 1. Not all my X11 font directories have 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.scale' files in them. Why not? Is there something I need to do to generate those files? 2. I've gotten very interested in how X handles and uses fonts, but I have yet to find a good general reference or overview. Any suggestions? Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e