Re: tiny fonts with wxt term

[Richard H. <r.h...@rl...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 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.
> 

hmmmm... I suspected that gnuplot was having problems finding fonts.

However, fontconfig is set up, the xml is correctly configured, I think it
is working.

I just tried 'set term png font budmo' (i have budmo.ttf) and this exposed
the fact that my GDFONTPATH wasn't set... I've fixed that: PNG works but
problem remains in wxt.

r,