Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!dartvax!mars!nic!bbn.com!archive.bbn.com!brazile From: brazile@soir.bbn.com (Robert Brazile) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: X weirdness under 3.1.5 Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 13:33:02 GMT Sender: news@bbn.com Distribution: comp Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Mass. Lines: 38 Am I the only one for whom fonts don't work correctly? I have a 6000 with both an 8-bit color card and a 24-bit color card. When running the 3003 X server on the 8-bit card, I could not use any application that used fixed-width fonts (such as Courier). They would display each character as if the server and the application had different ideas about the height of the character, so for "a" I would see all of an "a" and part of a "b" (obviously getting the next character in the font). This tended to make things unreadable. When I switched to the 24-bit card, things worked more-or-less properly, and I was able to run (gnu) emacs and other programs I need to do my work. The server on the 24-bit card had other problems, but nothing I couldn't live with. I had hopes that with 3005, these bugs would be fixed. Well, the problem persists with the server running on the 8-bit card, and now the 24-bit version is broken! Not as bad, mind you, but I can no longer see underscores in the Courier fonts. This makes looking at C source a real adventure. It may be a library-server disagreement, as clients distributed with the system don't seem to have the same problem. I'm just a little puzzled as to why I don't anyone else mentioning this difficulty. While I'm here, does anyone know how to get aixterm to stop turning my Delete keysyms into "ESC [ P"s? I've tried mucking with the translation tables to no effect; perhaps I'm doing it wrong. It was working fine (Delete == ASCII DEL) with 3003, it's just now broken in 3005. One last comment: I *really* wish (X-based) info wouldn't call xrdb WITHOUT the -merge flag. I get tired of all of my Xdefaults disappearing just because I had to look at a man page. Robert Brazile Bolt Beranek and Newman brazile@diamond.bbn.com