>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:37:27 -0700 (MST)
>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Belits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex> 
Alex> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>> On 24 Jan 2002 09:26:13 +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
>> >
>> > About the GetFont.c changes: you use *-fixed-* as fallback font.
>> > What about using something like:
>> >
>> > #define FALLBACK_FONT 
>> > "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-fixed-*"
>> >
>> > and we can add more fonts I think. The (small) problem with *-fixed-* is
>> > that I get a bold large font.
>> 
>> On my system, "*-fixed-*" gives
>> 
>> -jis-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0
>> 
>> that does not contain ascii glyphs at all (at least xterm -fn "*-fixed-*"
>> ends up empty). There is a misc-14 variant of this font, also unusable.
>> Probably it is safe to assume a user has
>> 
>> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 font.
>> 
Alex> 
Alex>   What all of you are talking about? Most X servers won't even start if
Alex> the font alias "fixed" isn't defined, so "fixed", not "*-fixed-*" should
Alex> be the last-resort fallback. Most of people have it set to the default
Alex> fixed font with iso8859-1 charset, and some (me, for example) to the same
Alex> with local charset (koi8-r in my case). *-fixed-* on my box also returns
Alex> "-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0", so it's
Alex> hardly an uncommon setup.

Thpe problem is that 
1. "fixed" is not a valid basename
2. "fixed" could be of not desired charset as "*-fixed-*" is for you.
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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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