rxvt-aa_2.6.3-8-fam5_arm.ipk is in familiar incoming...

Jim,

A thousand thanks!

I did the following steps:

        ipkg upgrade rxvt-aa
        ipkg install familiar-postinst
        /root/postinst
        mv /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ttf/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf/

I also added the following line near the top of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig:

        match any family == "mono" edit family += "Andale Mono";

With that, my iPAQ has never looked better! (Without the edit to
XftConfig, there's about a full character's width of dead space
between each character).

With a font of "mono-5:minspace=true" I can even get a 77x25 character
terminal that is actually mostly readable, (that's in spite of the
wasted space of the standard-size ion titlebar). Now, all I need to do
is squeeze in 3 more columns! :)

Thanks again.

-Carl

Jim Gettys writes:
> Please put in unstable.
>
> I believe we should make render and aa default in familiar, because the
> screen is so much nicer. This implies updating the appropriate meta packages.
>
> This adds menu entries for a number of different font sizes, from microscopic
> barely readable 4 point, to 5.5, which looks quite readable though very small
> on the screen, to larger sizes.
>
> Seems to work even if the microsoft fonts aren't installed.
>
> I still have to tweak .Xdefaults to finish up (to set default sizes).
>
> Also, I sent you mail about an update I made to postinst weeks ago: it
> doesn't seem to have made its way into unstable (to put the downloaded fonts
> into /usr/X11R6/lib/.... rather than /usr/local/lib).
> - Jim
>
>
>
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> Compaq Computer Corporation
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Received on Mon Jul 30 2001 - 07:29:23 EDT