How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
Thomas Dickey
dickey@his.com
Fri Aug 6 08:34:00 GMT 2010
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> 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
yes (one of the features of Xft is that it provides no error messages,
but simply uses the default font if there's any problem...)
> If you try
> xterm -fa "foobar"
> you also get the same result, for any "foobar" string.
That sounds as if the strings you're giving don't match the available
font family names. If you have "fc-list", it can give a list of names.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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