Hello James,
JAC> Seriously however, my point is that they don't take
> up *that* much room (particularly when compressed)...
My concern is not disk space. I have no objection to having
the alternative fonts in a tarball somewhere in case I need
them - my objective is a complete, correct configuration of
the workstations.
JAC> ...Linux distributions come on *three* bloody CDs...
Hearing that makes me glad I don't use Linux, although I
suspect that there are more slender distributions.
JAC> Uh, it ought to be in /usr/X11R6/bin or somewhere
> similar. If not then try just 'X' instead.
Ah, X helped...
XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: November 30 2000
JAC> Traditionally, yes the IBM PC compatible platform
> didn't have a way of communicating from monitor to
> video card and graphics app. A modern PC-compatible
> SVGAish monitor however supports DDC, which allows
> the monitor to communicate details like that. DDC
> has been around for some while now, so it's likely
> that your monitor supports it unless your monitor is
> older than about five years or so.
DDC is not something that I'd heard of before (I've just
developed a habit of forcing things into the appropriate
mode on the PC). I'll have to dig up some docs on that,
thanks for the info.
JAC> XFree86 4.x writes out a
> /var/log/XFree86.$DISPLAY.log that will give you
> interesting information such as what your monitor
> returned for DDC info, as given in my example above.
I couldn't find that on this machine, but I'm using a laptop
at the moment. It may also be a Linux thing.
Thinking about it, if X allows you to set an arbitrary
resolution (whether by choice or because your monitor tells
X that it can do 101 DPI), is it safe to assume that X will
correctly scale vector fonts accordingly? I happen to like
bitmapped fonts (yes, I'm an old fart), but can X function
happily without them?
Regards,
- Andy Ball.
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