[mythtv-users] Crappy looking fonts when run from autologin/.xinitrc, beautiful fonts when run from KDM/terminal session

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Wed May 14 15:39:15 EDT 2003


Robert Kulagowski wrote:

> ...The issue is that the
> fonts for the opening screen (and others) are _tiny_.
> 
> Now, if I exit out of mythfrontend, then exit out of blackbox, I get
> taken to the KDM login screen.  If I login as mythtv with blackbox as
> the WM, open a terminal session and type the above commands,
> mythfrontend comes up in all of its beautiful glory.

One thing that you may wan to check is "xset -q" in each
context to see if the Font Path is different. KDM may be
adding the elements you need when it starts up. If this
is the case, you should be able to add these to your font
path for blackbox.

--  bjm



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