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Originally Posted by hawhill
Oh, I guess it's using the system's freetype library - and that is probably lacking proper support for bitmap fonts. I guess the workaround is to specify a supported font as default font. Note that this will likely break for old X11 apps that expect some core bitmap fonts to be present. But most current software should work fine. Is that symlink stunt still needed anyway?
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no. not if you use the direct call. I was just mirroring
exactly how I do stuff. And that's
never "best practice".
That's very helpful info by the way, thank you.
I spoiled that section now with a big note in RED. Thanks Hawhill