[R] Font problem

[Peter Dalgaard]

Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com> writes:

> > 
> > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> >         ...
> > 
> > or lose the :unscaled, but that tends to look horrible.
> 
> Based upon my recollection of a similar query, a quick search of the
> mail archives shows that Peter and I responded to a similar problem
> earlier this year.
> 
> The solution appears to be to edit the file that Peter mentions above to
> include the lines (note the lack of the ':unscaled'):
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
 
> and to be sure that the 100 fonts were installed on the system.  Both
> sets of lines should be present in the file.

Actually, I think you can leave the :unscaled on. Seems to work for me.
 
> I believe that a restart of X may be required to make the change, but a
> restart of the X font server may suffice using:
> 
> /sbin/service xfs restart

Restarting xfs is certainly necessary (and, I believe, not implied by
restarting X) but beware that it may freeze currently running X
applications (that used to be the case anyway), so don't do it
with important stuff running on your desktop. 

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