On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 06:14:30AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 21:49, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any reason to choose either 75dpi or 100dpi fonts for use > > with xvile? > > I would suggest just picking a font by the full font descriptor and > comparing side by side. If you can tell the difference, then pick the > one which looks better :-) > > > Also is there any way to force xvile to use one or the other set as > > then one can use the (much shorter) alias name for the font rather > > than the whole long-winded description. > > I believe that the selection is controlled by the font path: > > xset q | grep -A1 Font > > The font that you end up with using a short name like "8x13" or > "lucidasans-bold-12" will be determined by which fonts.alias file > comes first in the path that you see in the output of the above > command. > OK, thanks, so basically there's not much sense to it! ... but I could change which gets chosen by default by changing the font path, wherever that gets set.
-- Chris Green
