Re: [MiNT] X11 and Font problems

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:51:32 , m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I once tried X11 for FreeMiNT but dropped the interest because there
>  where problems with fonts ( I just installed X11 and did what the Docs
>  (I believe they where written by AltF4) said). ( It contained some infos
>  on how to add some mandatory font's to the X11 installation).
>
>  But now I was interested again and wanted to ask for help on this:
>
>  1. When I launch xcalc, I have some scaling/redraw/size/whatever
>  problem with the Font that xcalc uses. See screenshot "xcalc.jpg". I
>  resized the area where the problem occurs.
>
>  2. When I launch xterm, it bails out because of missing fonts. See
>  screenshot "xterm_error.jpg".
>
>  3. When I launch xterm with -fn commandline and a font name (that's one
>  ugly thing within X11...) it looks fine and I would like to have
>  that font as default font for X11, so that xcalc looks the same... (if
>  the xcalc problem is really because of the "default" font) .
>
>  Has somebody info on this? I know that some people have nice X11 apps
>  running, like XChat and sylpheed for example... and it looks like they
>  have no problems with fonts - can somebody explain?
>
>  Greets,
>  m

I set it up about 10 years ago and have't messed with since
so I am not the best to ask but will help if I can.

Regards,

Peter