Re: Should I use 75dpi or 100dpi X fonts?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 06:14:30AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 21:49, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> > Is there any reason to choose either 75dpi or 100dpi fonts for use
> > with xvile?
> 
> I would suggest just picking a font by the full font descriptor and
> comparing side by side.  If you can tell the difference, then pick the
> one which looks better :-)
> 
> > Also is there any way to force xvile to use one or the other set as
> > then one can use the (much shorter) alias name for the font rather
> > than the whole long-winded description.
> 
> I believe that the selection is controlled by the font path:
> 
>   xset q | grep -A1 Font
> 
> The font that you end up with using a short name like "8x13" or
> "lucidasans-bold-12" will be determined by which fonts.alias file
> comes first in the path that you see in the output of the above
> command.
> 
OK, thanks, so basically there's not much sense to it!  ... but I
could change which gets chosen by default by changing the font path,
wherever that gets set.

-- 
Chris Green