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

[Brendan O'Dea]

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.

--bod