I installed an ubuntu box a few months ago on which the all the fonts
and colors for xterm show up properly. I installed an ubuntu box
yesterday from the same boot image (5.10), and the bold font that
xterm is using is a disaster (illegible in some cases). After some
probing with xlsatoms, I determined that the proper font(s) are:
-Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1
and the broken fonts are:
-Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
So my question is "What is responsible for this difference in default
fonts and how do make the xterms default to the correct font?"
I looked at the termcaps between the two systems; they are the same.
I looked the terminfo's; they are the same.
I looked at the app-defaults; they are the same.
The version of xterm is the same (203).
The output of xlsfonts is the same (same display; xterms spawned on
the "bad" machine display the problem, regardless of the display, and
xterms spawned on the "good" machine display properly regardless of
which machine they are displayed on).
In short, the only difference I found was in the atoms.
The colors are wrong too but LS_COLORS is the same. I will ask that
question separately. I only include it here in case it sheds light on
this problem.
If you need accounts on the boxes to investigate, I can do that. |
Clarification of Question by
martinsz-ga
on
02 Mar 2006 15:15 PST
ok, after some more hackery, it seems that problem is that xterm
decided to use one of the bold fonts as its bold font, instead of a
medium font. I cannot tell the difference visually between the
ISO8859 and ISO10646 fonts, but that is of no real concern. I have
temporarily solved my problem by forcing the bold font to be a medium
font in my .Xresources, but I would still like to know why it would
pick different defaults on two theoretically identical systems.
(and the blue colors are still different, too)
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