Re: Fonts: the Neverending Struggle

2003-06-14 Thread Maurizio Colucci
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 02:33, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Hi All, > > I've spent the last two days scouring Google and the Debian-User archives in > search of help with fonts under X (specifically, XFree86 4.2 and Fluxbox 0.1.7-3 > under Woody). In my search, I discovered that there is a lack of consist

Re: Fonts: the Neverending Struggle

2003-06-14 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op za 14-06-2003, om 02:33 schreef M. Kirchhoff: > Hi All, > > I've spent the last two days scouring Google and the Debian-User archives in > search of help with fonts under X (specifically, XFree86 4.2 and Fluxbox 0.1.7-3 > under Woody). In my search, I discovered that there is a lack of consist

Re: Fonts: the Neverending Struggle

2003-06-14 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hi, I don't disagree with some of your points, or your feelings about the font situation. I do remark that with many voluntary initiatives (Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, etc.) for desktops, I'm not surprised that they don't all use one common scheme for fonts, and other aspects. There is no one "GNU/

Re: Fonts: the Neverending Struggle

2003-06-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
M. Kirchhoff wrote: > If it's true that font servers aren't really necessary, then > what is the easiest way to get good looking fonts simply using > the XFree86 config files? Because of a reinstall I went through it recently again. Some of the main points are (I think): - true, you don't need a

Fonts: the Neverending Struggle

2003-06-13 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Hi All, I've spent the last two days scouring Google and the Debian-User archives in search of help with fonts under X (specifically, XFree86 4.2 and Fluxbox 0.1.7-3 under Woody). In my search, I discovered that there is a lack of consistent, up-to-date information. For example, the XFree86 Font