Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 Mar 2017 19:52:18 Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag > truetype disabled .. so `-truetype'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > >> >> Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag > truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Wh

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled without support for -fa > Note

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: [...] Harry wrote: [...] >> googling for hours on this I find xterm can understand a different >> switch `xterm -fa bla-bla' >> >> However, xterm as installed from portage does not understand that >> switch at all. >> >> Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 01:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > > [...] > >> Please clarify ... ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), >> ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), and/or specific xterm ( i.e >> "x11-terms/xterm" ). > > This is a full X host running lxde for desktop Th

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: [...] > Please clarify ... > ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), > ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), > and/or specific xterm ( i.e "x11-terms/xterm" ). This is a full X host running lxde for desktop The xterm I speak of is the real McCoy .. the one Thomas Dic