[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have been doing a lot of reading on de-uglifying fonts on X. I > have installed truetype fonts, worked on xfs, tried different > configurations in my applications.
Personally, I don't believe in this truetype thing; PostScript Type 1 fonts work perfectly well for scaledness, and there is a reasonable set of them installed on most systems. > In the end it worked quite well, but nowhere near to what I was used > to on that Other System. I was running 1280x1024 on my 19 inch > monitor. Just for the heck of it I tried 1600x1200. Automagically > all my fonts are now perfect. In fact browsing looks at least as > good as IE/Mozilla on Win. ... > If I decide that the higher refresh rate is more important than the > 1600x1200 refresh rate and go back to 1280x1024, I would like my > fonts to stay the same. Does anyone know a way to do this? I do disgusting things with my .Xresources file. There seems to be no reasonable way to do this with GNOME, sadly, and it doesn't work for remote GNOME apps (where it does for other remote apps, e.g. Emacs and xterms). That having been said... xrdb can run an arbitrary preprocessor over your .Xresources file. It normally runs the C preprocessor, cpp, but that's really not suited for this since X resources files aren't C source. Instead, I use m4; rename .Xresources to .Xresources.m4, and add 'xrdb -cpp m4 .Xresources.m4' to your .xsession file. xrdb(1) documents a number of macros that are defined by xrdb before including the X resources file. These include, among other things, the display resolution in pixels per meter. We can use m4 macros to simplify this, though. Add to the top of your .Xresources.m4 file: define(X_DPI,eval(X_RESOLUTION*100/3937)) define(Y_DPI,eval(Y_RESOLUTION*100/3937)) Now we just need to have a standard way of getting a font name for a particular foundry, face, weight/slant, and size. You want to use full X font names here (since you don't get a scalable font unless all of the pixel size, point size, X resolution, Y resolution, and character with are defined, possibly to zero!). My world only has normal and bold fonts, so I define: define(FONT,`$1-0-$2-X_DPI-Y_DPI-*-0-iso8859-1') define(NORMALFONT,`FONT(-$1-$2-medium-r-normal-,$3)') define(BOLDFONT,`FONT(-$1-$2-bold-r-normal-,$3)') Then, whenever I need to define a font, I use one of these macros: XTerm*font: NORMALFONT(adobe,courier,110) Emacs.default.attributeFont: NORMALFONT(adobe,courier,110) <rant><para> I consider it a major bug in GNOME that there's no good way to do this. I think in my ideal world GNOME apps would magically figure out the resolution of the display they're running on and scale their own fonts correctly. (From playing around briefly with KDE apps, there are suggestions that it might do this...) While X resources are a bit klunky for ordinary users, it'd be nice if there were some way for power users to get things to work "correctly", for values of "correct" that are "consistent with the rest of their setup". </para></rant> -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
