Ugly, ugly fonts in X apps after upgrade to FC2 [Was: Re: core 2 test 2 : fonts ]

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

I haven't received any replies to my question. Does this mean that
others do not have a similar problem or that others do not know of a
solution?

--- Vladimir

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>>>>> "vgi" == Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir at acm.org> writes:

    vgi> 
    vgi> I have the same problem on the released version of FC2. Xterm and
    vgi> especially XEmacs have leading and size problems, and are especially thin.
    vgi> 
    vgi> I searched for "font" and "fonts" and didn't find anything on either the
    vgi> fedora-devel or fedora-test lists. I also checked the unofficial FC FAQ.
    vgi> Nothing.
    vgi> 
    vgi> Can someone suggest a solution, or failing that, a place I can search
    vgi> for a solution?
    vgi> 
    vgi> Thanks.
    vgi> 
    vgi> --- Vladimir
    vgi> 
    vgi> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    vgi> Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
    vgi> 2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir at acm.org
    vgi> Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014
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>>>>> "ck" == Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at redhat.com> writes:
    vgi> 
    ck> 
    ck> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:01, Raghu Angadi wrote:
    >>> Hi,
    >>> 
    >>> I just upgraded from test1 to test2.
    >>> 
    >>> One thing I noticed is that font rendering seems to have changed in xterm,
    >>> xemacs (apps that use traditional fonts). I run xterm with 'courier new' and
    >>> the font looks awful after the upgrade. No config differences that I know of.
    >>> 
    >>> Do you know what's going on?
    >>> 
    >>> xterm command:
    >>> 
    >>> xterm +sb -fn -*-courier new-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
    >>> 
    >>> thanks,
    >>> Raghu.
    ck> 
    ck> Check the archives of devel-list and/or test-list. I belive I remember
    ck> seeing something about that, but it never affected me so the fix didn't
    ck> stick in my head.
    ck> 
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