How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font

[JOHNER Jean 066030]

Brian Timares wrote:
>Jean,

>I think this is what you want.  I have:
>XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*
>in my .Xdefaults

>Other than colors, here is my .Xdefaults (in my home directory, natch):
>XTerm*scrollBar: on
>XTerm*saveLines: 99999
>XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*
>XTerm*visualBell: true
>XTerm*titeInhibit: true
>urxvt*secondaryScreen: false

>The most important part is the XTerm*titeInhibit: true, it is beyond me
>why that isn't the default everywhere (it prevents a screen clear when
>you're, say, done reading a man page).  I want to get rid of the title
>bar but haven't explored that as I launch most of my xterms from a
>script. Extract:

>nohup xterm -name $h -title $h -ls -mc none +tb +mb -vb -sb -sl 99999
>-background grey95 -fg black -cr black -ms black -font
>"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" -e ssh -Yq root@$h
>/dev/null & 2>&1

>Naturally $h is the server :)

>To get the fonts I launched xfontsel and went through it and
>experimented.  Use the 'select' button to put the string into the
>buffer.


>Brian

Thank you, Brian.
It seems that full XLFD font name was necessary.
Best regards.
Jean Johner

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