Hello James!
JAC> Probably both sets. Having both 75dpi and 100dpi fonts
> installed is usually what you want.
I don't think it's really what I want. On newer workstations I can
run X at 100 DPI (say on a monitor with a 16" visible diagonal, at
1,280 x 960 pixels), and I would want the 100 DPI fonts installed so
that text was scaled properly.
On an older machine with a 'thirteen and one third inches' visible
diagonal (generally sold as "fifteen inch monitors" around here, I
could use 75 DPI fonts and an 800 x 600 pixel mode.
JAC> $ XFree86 -version
I'm trying to find XFree86 now, but I'm searching the whole
filesystem so it could take a while.
JAC> $ ls -lR /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
> If you want to see what fonts your X server knows about while
> it's running (ie, what fonts are available in the fontpath):
> $ xlsfonts
Thanks, I'll try those out.
JAC> -dpi resolution
> sets the resolution of the screen, in dots per
> inch. To be used when the server cannot determine
> the screen size from the hardware.
Excellent, that sounds very useful!
JAC> Keep in mind that your X server usually guesses it, and does a
> pretty good job of guessing.
I can believe that's true on other platforms, but the PC traditionally
didn't have a way for the monitor to tell the machine how large it
was physically: hence my interest in the -dpi option above.
JAC> HTH.
It has a lot, thanks!
Regards,
- Andy Ball.
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