On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 21:47:37 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > FWIW, you can tell xterm to use freetype fonts, e.g., > > > > xterm -fa "Monospace 12" > > > > Alternatively, use the faceName resource in your ~/.Xresources file. > > Monospace 12 doesn't seem to exist on my system. In fact I haven't found > what fonts I can use -- anything at all I put after xterm -fa results in > the same thing -- an entirely usable, if a little bit large, xterm > window with standard 80x24, which bahaves perfectly from the point of > view of my original post.
'xterm -fa "Monospace 12' might be better as xterm -fa "Monospace" -fs 12 > As an example I am writing this mail in Mutt on such an xterm launched with : > > xterm -fa bollocks > > How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them? Any TrueType font. Examples: xterm -fa "freesans" -fs 16 xterm -fa "droidsansmono" -fs 16 xterm -fa "dejavuserifcondensed" -fs 16 See /usr/share/fonts for what you have. > Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal? Perfectly normal. You have to create and populate it. Correctly done you can be confident it will work. -- Brian.
