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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > alias o='Xvesa -screen 1024x768x16 &rxvt -e icewm &rxvt -e opera'
> 
> Both of those "rxvt -e" are unnecessary.  Neither icewm nor
> opera need an xterm to run it.  They both run directly from X.

Please tell me exactly how to accomplish the above (forget the alias part)  
without any rxvt -e.  I have tried all sorts of combinations and I either
get as far as a grey mottled screen with an X, or a black screen with
error messages.  I either need to put icewm into .xinitrc or use rxvt for
it to work for me.  I really don't understand this all.  


> 
> > (misc, probably what Steven chose for Bl3) 
> 
> Nope.  You can see exactly what I chose for BL3 by looking in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.  BTW, the fonts I have in the misc
> directory are not the fonts that Slackware puts in the misc
> directory.

I was not clear.  I meant that it would make sense to copy over your BL3 
fonts into the /misc directory instead of what is provided by SW71.  


> > and one set of truetype fonts ought to do it
> 
> I think you are confusing truetype with scalable.
> Slackware provides scalable fonts, not truetype.

Thanks.  Can you also explain why there are both 75 and 100dpi fonts and 
can I use just one of these, for instance helvetica in all sizes?  Or are 
75 and 100 designed for different resolutions?    I suppose I can learn by 
experimenting some more (delete or rename some).  


> > You can also manage with just the Xvesa fonts if your eyes 
> > are good.  
> 
> Why would you want to do that when a nice big font takes
> just 2.7 kb of space?

Because you are a crazy minimalist of the sort that BL attracts?
(Like those of us who go through and hand-delete all the COPYING and 
COPYRIGHT and INSTALL files - is there some way to do a global rm 
instead?)  But the comment on eyesight was really just meant as a joke.

> Cheers,
> Steven