Bitmap fonts

[Mariano Suarez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

Hi all,

After installing slackware 9.0 and recompiler the whole of 2.2.1 gnome, I
found that the bitmap fonts (eg, the X `core fonts,' among which ranks most
prominently the fixed family) have disappeard from all font-selection
dialogs, like the one on gnome-terminal or applications:///Preferences/Font.

Apparently the fontconfig guys have decided that bitmap fonts are too ugly
(I actually read that somewhere, though I can't find it again now)

Anyone knows how to make them available again to the GNOME apps?

-- m

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Mariano Suarez Alvarez
Departamento de Matematica - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Pellegrini 250 - Rosario 2000 - Argentina

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    he sacado la mayor leccion de mi vida. Aprendi a respetar las ideas
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    antes de discutir, a discutir antes de condenar. Y como estoy en
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    toda mi alma a los fanaticos.

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