On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:46:39PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > > works on xterm too (-font is an alias). The 10x20 font will actually > > quite closely resemble the Windows 10x18 console font. I don't really > > like to use the -fg and -bg options, because they color *everything*, > > and that's not really what I want. > > Wow - nearly perfect! Can that be boldfaced (darkened a bit) by default?
No, I don't believe so... As I mentioned, the way X deals with fonts is a bit esoteric. For raster fonts, you'd need an equivalent bold weight font, and there does not appear to be one that corresponds to this font (at least, not on my system). As a compromise between this and the 10x18 font, you might try this instead: xterm -fn '-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' In fact, I quite like this font myself. It even seems that when I view mail in Korean with the Unicode version of this font, the Korean characters are displayed properly, which comes as a bit of a surprise. I might switch to it as my every-day font. If you like that, you can replace your XTerm.font resource line with one that uses this one. It's slightly smaller than the 10x20 font, but it is bolded and quite legible. I think this font also somewhat resembles the Windows 10x18 console font, but YMMV. Also note that you could have different fonts installed than I do (though that's somewhat unlikely I suppose, for Cygwin/X installs). > Thank you, thank you! I will read and test these with great > interest. You're welcome, glad I could help. Sometimes the Oldies really are the Goodies (software, I mean). :) To be honest, on a real Linux system I've adopted gnome-terminal as my default terminal, mainly because in the balance it ends up being slightly more convenient for me for a couple of reasons... but I still prefer the behavior, configurability, and appearance of xterm on the whole. Using X under Windows always reminds me of that. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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