From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16077 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2010 08:30:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 16058 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2010 08:30:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sainfoin-out.extra.cea.fr (HELO sainfoin-out.extra.cea.fr) (132.166.172.107) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:30:17 +0000 Received: from pisaure.intra.cea.fr (pisaure.intra.cea.fr [132.166.88.21]) by sainfoin.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.0) with ESMTP id o768UFpv008518 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:30:15 +0200 Received: from muguet1.intra.cea.fr (muguet1.intra.cea.fr [132.166.192.6]) by pisaure.intra.cea.fr (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o768UEip003495 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:30:15 +0200 (envelope-from Jean.JOHNER@cea.fr) Received: from levau.intra.cea.fr (levau.intra.cea.fr [132.166.88.52]) by muguet1.intra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Intranet-out-1.1) with ESMTP id o768UEJT019980 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:30:14 +0200 Received: from THEZE.intra.cea.fr ([132.169.103.40]) by levau.intra.cea.fr with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:30:14 +0200 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4D9@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> From: "JOHNER Jean 066030" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> I would like to launch an xterm terminal using "Monospace" font. >> Monospace is the font used by default by gvim. >> I tried: >> xterm -fn "Monospace" > xterm -fa "Monospace" > is perhaps what you meant. Thank you for your quick answer. xterm -fa "Monospace" gives no error message but open xterm with the same font (which is not Monospace) as: xterm If you try xterm -fa "foobar" you also get the same result, for any "foobar" string. Best regards. Jean Johner -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/