In article <20250722163315.ec599b2f...@viking.prd.co.uk>, Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk> wrote: >For over 10 years I have run our office network with a clutch of >'nettop'-style machines with specific roles but overlapping >capabilities, so that any one machine can die without affecting >overall functionality. One of these, running NetBSD 7.0, repeatedly >fails to boot multi-user: it's main role was to run Xvnc to provide >access to the network of NetBSD machines to PC workstations. This >arrangement has worked very well, so well I had not looked at how it >was set up for years. > >So I switched the service over to an identical machine whose >principal role was to provide outward-facing services: mail, named >etc. It appeared at first to be a seamless transition, until I saw >that characters typed into an xterm were echoed horizontally offset to >the right, so were largely unreadable. Characters programatically >output to the screen are rendered correctly. I use lucidatypewriter >as my STD_FONT, 18 point in deference to my presbyopia. A fix for >this would be really helpful. > >So I turned to a NetBSD 9.2 box, and here I hit a different problem. >Using Xvnc as started by the same vncserver script as before, I get >the right screen dimensions (1920x1080) but not the font I want or the >size I want. It looks like there was a major reorganisation of fonts >some time between 7.0 and 9.2, with more layers of configuration. How >do I specify th lucidatypewriter font I want (it's there, I can see it >through xlsfontas, but I don't get told where it is in the >filesystem). > >Finally, with native X on 9.2, despite specifying a geometry of >1920x1080 in my startx script, I get a 1024x768 display. Why? > >I'm about to replace all my old machines but need to feel properly in >controld when I do. > >BTW, all machines amd64.
use 'xset q' to query your font path and then see if the bitmap fonts (75dpi/100dpi) are before or after the Type1 fonts. Why font are you trying to use? christos
