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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: font problems
Message-ID: <216500011@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll    Jul 14 15:49:00 1989


Suppose a standard font directories has fonts A,B,C in it. I have an program
Q that I want to run that uses A,B and C. However, I don't like the way
certain characters in C look, so I make a copy and fix it. How do I now get
Q to use my copy of C and not the default? I played around with xset fp for
a long time and could never get it to work. Solutions attempted -
xset fp <my-C directory> : xlsfonts lists C as a font, but A and B are not
available.
xset +fp <my-C directory> : xlsfonts lists A,B,C, but requesting font C gives
the default one.
xset fp+ <my-C directory> : same as previous.

Before you ask, I used xset fp rehash after all of these, and did mkfontdir
(otherwise the first one wouldn't have worked). I assumed that the server
would find them in order, but apparently not.

System : X11R3 on SunOS4.0, Sun 3/60 color station.

Alan M. Carroll                "Oh goody, the Illudium Q-36 Explosive
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu           Space Modulator!"
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll