Fonts (Was: CVS commit: xsrc/external/mit)

On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 08:17:06 +0000, Nia Alarie wrote:

> Module Name:	xsrc
> Committed By:	nia
> Date:		Sun May  8 08:17:06 UTC 2022
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	xsrc/external/mit/xdm/dist/config: Xsession.in
> 	xsrc/external/mit/xinit/dist: xinitrc.cpp
> 
> Log Message:
> want more default xorg font resource definitions,
> and a clock on ctwm startup
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 xsrc/external/mit/xdm/dist/config/Xsession.in
> cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 xsrc/external/mit/xinit/dist/xinitrc.cpp

[...]
> @@ -93,10 +94,17 @@ Xgc*font:       -*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$
>  Xmag*font:      -*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>  Xmessage*font:  -*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>  Xmh*font:       -*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> +Xman*font:	-*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Why don't just use *font (and *boldFont) wildcards - as intended?  You
cannot enumerate all Xt programs :)


> +Xman*manualFontNormal:	-*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> +Xman*manualFontBold:	-*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> +Xman*manualFontItalic:	-*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> +Xman*directoryFontNormal:	-*-spleen-medium-r-*-*-$fontsize-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>  EOF

Why kill bold/italic formatting that is very useful for visual
presentation?  As an aside, why *VT100.allowBoldFonts: false?  Is that
b/c spleen has no bold/italic versions?  That makes it unsuitable as
the default font IMO.

-uwe