font differences between xorg vs. xfree86?

Ben Steeves bcs at metacon.ca
Sat Mar 20 05:05:20 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 23:00, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ben Steeves <bcs at metacon.ca> said:
> > Are my eyes deceiving me, or is "MiscFixed" not the same font in xorg as
> > it was in XFree?  I've been using MiscFixed in my shells for quite some
> > time and was shocked at how bad it looked after switching to the xorg
> > packages.  
> 
> The old font is also known by the name "6x13" in the old X font system.
> Has someone switch xterm to the new font way (and if so is the old
> "6x13" available)?

It's still installed... if I do "xterm -fn 6x13", I get my old friend
back.  The problem is, I like using gnome-terminal, and can't for the
life of me figure out how to tell it to use "6x13".  

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