local and remote text fonts

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Scott Tringali <scott.tringali at totalviewtech.com>:

> X resources can usually be qualified by the display name
> (.Xdefaults-hostname), that might be the easiest way.

I didn't realise you could do that!

> Tony, instead of specifying different fonts pixels based on screen DPI,
> you can just specify fonts by point size which does the same thing.  Of
> course, that may not give exactly what you want.

I've always found that the change in visible font sizes when you vary point
size always seems very unpredictable and non-uniform.

> Right now we default to a point size, not pixel size, on the theory that
> it will produce a reasonable size no matter what the DPI is.  (Well,
> unless KDE or something has stomped on it.)  But sometimes you want more
> control over it - especially if you're using bitmap fonts where a
> particular pixel size is very important.

I use misc-fixed fonts always because I find them clearest, being a nice
1-to-1 pixel mapping. They can be quite small too, which I like. I find
variations of Courier to be too square, and have unnecessary serifs. As a
default it's OK, but I prefer fixed's clean style. I've settled on 6x13 AKA
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 and its
bold/italic relatives. The ideal font set AFAIC. For the finer screen
resolutions, I just sit closer ;-).

Tony