Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: strange thing from XLoadQueryFont Message-ID: <8808171221.AA00462@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 88 12:21:39 GMT References: <1500@daisy.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 8 > xconq.IconFont: /misc/Xconq5/lib/xconq.snf [didn't work, where /tmp/xconq.snf did] This is sort-of brain damage in the X11R2 implementation of OpenFont. Turns out it lowercased the entire string, not just the final component, before looking up the file. This was in order to match the protocol requirement that "case does not matter [in a font name]".