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From: "JOHNER Jean 066030" <Jean.JOHNER@cea.fr>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4DA@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> (raw)

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> If you try
>> xterm -fa "foobar"
>> you also get the same result, for any "foobar" string.
>
> That sounds as if the strings you're giving don't match the available
> font family names.  If you have "fc-list", it can give a list of
names.

fc-list results in many fonts being listed but no Monospace!
"Times" is in the list. I tried:
xterm -fn "Times"
xterm -fn "Times-12"
xterm -fa "Times"
xterm -fa "Times-12"

Always the same result with the same default font.

Has anybody been able to launch xterm with a font (any is welcome) which
is not the default?

That would give a track before going in the details of unix fonts
literature.

Thank you for your help.

Jean Johner 

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06  9:41 JOHNER Jean 066030 [this message]
2010-08-06 16:10 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
2010-08-06 16:17   ` Timares, Brian (HP)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-10  8:41 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-06  8:30 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-06  8:34 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-08-05 20:57 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-05 22:32 ` Thomas Dickey

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