> On Mar 27, 2015, at 4:15, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources /usr/bin/xterm -bg black > -fg cyan -geometry 50x9+0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & > /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & > exec /usr/bin/icewm > ~/.icewm.log 2>&1 > > Some time ago, somebody decided to deprecate iso8859-1 fonts. And > when I run startx, the text console comes up with
Why not use some new TTF? Put the config to ~/Xdefaults: XTerm*faceName: Liberation Mono XTerm*faceSize: 12 > xterms come up with some dinky little font. It's bad enough on a 24 > in 1920x1080 monitor. On an 11" 1366x768 netbook, it's unreadable. > When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the > xterm crashes. X server abjusts font sizes according to the DPI value. The DPI value it calculates might be wrong though: bad EDID most likely. Set the DPI value in you Xorg.conf file to make the fonts in constant size. > One of the nice things about having multiple machines, is that I still > had another machine with the old fonts. For a few years, I've preserved > a copy of /usr/share/fonts from that machine as fonts_do_not_delete. So > each time fonts are "updated" on my machines, I rename /usr/share/fonts > to /usr/share/fonts.borken and copy the fonts_do_not_delete directory as > /usr/share/fonts. CONFIG_PROTECT the directory or make the fonts immutable so they don't get removed. chattr +i > OK, so whats supposed to be "the right way" to get working xterms with > lucidasanstypewriter-12? -- -Matti
