How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font

JOHNER Jean 066030 Jean.JOHNER@cea.fr
Fri Aug 6 08:30:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> I would like to launch an xterm terminal using "Monospace" font.
>> Monospace is the font used by default by gvim.
>> I tried:
>> xterm -fn "Monospace"

> xterm -fa "Monospace"

> is perhaps what you meant.

Thank you for your quick answer.
xterm -fa "Monospace"
gives no error message but open xterm with the same font (which is not
Monospace) as:
xterm

If you try
xterm -fa "foobar"
you also get the same result, for any "foobar" string.

Best regards.

Jean Johner

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