on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this > problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently > posted solutions. > > Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident several weeks ago). > I tried reordering the FontPath lines in the X config file. Then I > got some messed up fonts in X and the warning that the Type1 and > Speedo directories weren't valid FontPaths. The visual problem is > that in gnome-terminal, gvim, and x-chat the font is way too big now.
I had what at least sounds like the same problem after an X upgrade---huge ugly fonts all over the place. It drove me up the walls. I tried all sorts of increasingly desperate strategems, but the resolution turned out to be embarrassingly straightforward. At some point XF86Config-4 was overwritten in such a way that the font-path for the 100dpi fonts was ordered before the font-path for the 75dpi fonts in the `Files' section. I'm not sure how or when this happened but when I reversed the order, all returned to normal. You say that you tried reordering the font-path lines, but it wasn't clear to me what changes exactly you made, so I thought it might be worth passing on my own experience. The only consolation for me was that before I hit on the stupidly obvious right answer, I had learned a lot about font-management under X. Sigh, Jim
