How to figure out which package provides the "Fixed 16" font

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:00:48 -0700 stan <stanl-fedorauser at vfemail.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 13:55:30 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
> > So, which list would this be? I don't think that this is a sylpheed
> > issue, because nothing has changed there for months. And the font
> > still works on a F21 installation for sylpheed with exactly the same
> > version as F22.
> 
> I did a man xterm, and turned up the following:
> 
> "Most of the xterm options are actually parsed by the X Toolkit, which
> sets resource values.  Xterm provides the X Toolkit with a table of
> options.  A few of these are marked, telling the X  Toolkit  to
> ignore  them  (-help, -version, -class, -e, and -into).  After the X
> Toolkit has parsed the command-line parameters, it removes those which
> it handles, leaving the specially-marked parameters for xterm to
> handle."
> 
> "-fn font
>                This option specifies the font to be used for displaying
>                normal text.  The corresponding resource name is font.
>                The resource value default is fixed."
> 
> So, in all likelihood, the font named fixed is set by X.  That
> probably means the X definition of fixed changed between F21 and F22.
> Since X is undergoing major construction because of wayland, that might
> make sense.
> 
> This also could explain why the command line version is so minimal -
> xterm gets no options.  In the gui version, there are probably default X
> options that add all the gui goodies.

Thank you very much!! But, an update from the repos today (I am set up by cron to do an update every night) fixed it. So there was something missing which has now come in and I am back to being a happy camper (as far as fonts go). I have to say that so far I have not had any negative experience with F22 (but then I do run a very mininalistic distribution).

Thanks again for all you help and explanattions!!

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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