changing font

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, matias kaukonen wrote:

> Based on a previous suggestion:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> fc-list | less
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Luxi Serif:style=Regular
> LucidaBright:style=Italic
> Utopia:style=Bold Italic
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold
> Luxi Serif:style=Bold
> LucidaTypewriter:style=Sans Bold
> Fixed:style=Bold
> .. . .
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> So I setup my .Xdefaults to:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>            XTerm.VT100.scrollBar:      True
>            XTerm.VT100.visualBell:     True
>            XTerm.VT100.loginShell:     True
> XTerm*scrollbar:                True
> XTerm*background:               Wheat
> XTerm*foreground:               Black
> XTerm*font: Luxi Serif:style=Bold

This might work:

   XTerm*font: Luxi Serif

> *renderFont:true
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The result, when I started up an xterm, was:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Warning: Color name "Wheat " is not defined
> Warning: Color name "Black " is not defined
> xterm:  unable to open font "Luxi Serif ", trying "fixed"....

xterm is only looking for the face-name (making it handle the modifiers
in the pattern is something that's been recently suggested).

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