Working with fonts

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 laboiss1@netscape.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup my xterm with the -fn -fs option in order to
> increase the font size. I just can't figure out how and which fonts to
> select, and therefore it always defaults to "fixed". Does anybody have a
> font primer? I'm looking for things such as which directory to
> uncompress fonts, what names to use and how to link them?

-fn and -fs are unrelated.

-fn selects the "normal" font (the first entry of the control/right mouse
menu), while -fs selects a size for the font given by the -fa option.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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