Re: tiny fonts with wxt term

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:47 am, Richard Henwood wrote:
>
> I have a CVS gnuplot compiled on my 64bit Suse 10.1 with Gnome
> Desktop
>
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.1 patchlevel 0
>         last modified August 2006
>         System: Linux 2.6.16.21-0.13-smp
>
> The font size with wxt terminal is tiny by default, ie ~ 1 pixel of
> the default window size on my disply (1600x1200).

I was bitten by this problem also.  
The wxt terminal obtains fonts via a shared desktop utility called
"fontconfig".  I was not using this utility prior to this, so on my
machines no configuration had been set up and wxt could not find any
useful fonts.

Installing/running fontconfig will create an XML file
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf that tells the support libraries where to
find fonts on your system.

It may also be that you do have a working fontconfig, but it
doesn't know about any TrueType fonts (e.g. arial) you may have
installed by other mechanisms.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA