fonts and X11

gerald davies gerald_davies at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 25 11:11:50 GMT 2004


i'm sure you can set fonts via the ".gtkrc", but i havent had to do that for 
a long time.

fonts on my boxes use the bitstream-vera and webfonts ports.  if you haven't 
installed them then you should ;-) although your mileage may vary!

>From: "Moloney, Gerard" <Gerard.Moloney at gee.co.uk>
>To: "'freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org'" <freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: fonts and X11
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:10:48 -0000
>
>Hi:
>
>Is there a simple (i.e lazy person's) way of setting fonts for applications
>in X.
>
>At the minute, I'm setting up each application individually which is
>tiresome.
>
>Basically, I am primarily using a laptop (800*600 resolution) to view
>postscript output from
>a music notation program, abcplus in Ghostview and some of the stave lines
>are somewhat fuzzy with the default.
>(Setting up the graphics and sound generally on a laptop can be a pain, but
>FreeBSD is a lot better than Linux in these areas)
>
>I don't have any desktop installed and don't wish to have one due to memory
>constraints.
>
>Has anyone any tips? Is there a variable that I can set to provide a
>default?
>
>Cheers Ged Moloney.
>
>P.S If anyone is looking for a brilliant and fully documented notation
>program, then ABCplus is just what you need.
>
>
>
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