Re: bloatware

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:58:44 -0500

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On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:57:13PM -0600, Ben Jansens wrote: 
> Just out of curiosity, what font is more likely to be on a system, and to be
> used as a fallback font in place of fixed?

fixed is the correct fallback for core X fonts.

> As well, is it different now with Xft?

Yes - with fontconfig, the guaranteed-to-exist fonts are "sans-serif",
"serif", and "monospace" (IIRC). These are aliases rather than real
fonts.

Havoc