[desktop-discuss] Some problematic fonts in b116?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just upgraded my desktop from b111 to b116 using Live Upgrade.
> After reenabling the NIS service (dunno why I had to do that...) I
> logged in just fine.  But when I open a terminal window, the font
> used is HUGE!
> 
> I'm using dtterm and have this line in my ~/.Xdefaults:
> 
> Dtterm*userFont:        -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s sans-*-*-72-72-*-*-iso8859-1
> 
> The funny thing is, I can't change the way this displays.  If I select
> a different font size from dtterm's option menu, there's no effect.
> 
> Another data point: when I try to open a dtterm window from another
> machine (running b111) and display it on my upgraded machine, the
> font size is still huge and I see this warning:
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> 
> Is this a known issue (and is the fix coming soon)?

The long term fix is deleting dtterm, but you knew that.  8-)

In the shorter term, the -dt-interface* fonts that got accidentally lost
are coming back in later builds.

6843567 100dpi font is missing fonts.aliases.all
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6843567

6845279 Fonts.alias.all missing from SUNWxwfnt package
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6845279

6845246 F3bitmaps fonts.alias.all file missing from X packages
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6845246

6852311 Lucida Sans F3bitmaps have gone missing again
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6852311

6849729 After installing X Nevada B117 X86 packages on SNV116, the font on the
dtlogin screen become obscure
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6849729

You may be able to get them back in the immediate term by installing
SUNWxwfnt from an older build, and if using Xsun you may also need to
do "xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps" in some builds.

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