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* Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
@ 2010-08-06 9:41 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-06 16:10 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
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From: JOHNER Jean 066030 @ 2010-08-06 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
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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* RE: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
2010-08-06 9:41 How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font JOHNER Jean 066030
@ 2010-08-06 16:10 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
2010-08-06 16:17 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
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From: Timares, Brian (HP) @ 2010-08-06 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
JOHNER Jean wrote:
>Has anybody been able to launch xterm with a font (any is welcome)
which
>is not the default?
Jean,
I think this is what you want. I have:
XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*
in my .Xdefaults
Other than colors, here is my .Xdefaults (in my home directory, natch):
XTerm*scrollBar: on
XTerm*saveLines: 99999
XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*visualBell: true
XTerm*titeInhibit: true
urxvt*secondaryScreen: false
The most important part is the XTerm*titeInhibit: true, it is beyond me
why that isn't the default everywhere (it prevents a screen clear when
you're, say, done reading a man page). I want to get rid of the title
bar but haven't explored that as I launch most of my xterms from a
script. Extract:
nohup xterm -name $h -title $h -ls -mc none +tb +mb -vb -sb -sl 99999
-background grey95 -fg black -cr black -ms black -font
"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" -e ssh -Yq root@$h
>/dev/null & 2>&1
Naturally $h is the server :)
To get the fonts I launched xfontsel and went through it and
experimented. Use the 'select' button to put the string into the
buffer.
Brian
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* RE: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
2010-08-06 16:10 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
@ 2010-08-06 16:17 ` Timares, Brian (HP)
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From: Timares, Brian (HP) @ 2010-08-06 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I wrote:
>I want to get rid of the title
>bar
Sorry, make that "Toolbar".
Brian
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* RE: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
@ 2010-08-10 8:41 JOHNER Jean 066030
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From: JOHNER Jean 066030 @ 2010-08-10 8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
Brian Timares wrote:
>Jean,
>I think this is what you want. I have:
>XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*
>in my .Xdefaults
>Other than colors, here is my .Xdefaults (in my home directory, natch):
>XTerm*scrollBar: on
>XTerm*saveLines: 99999
>XTerm*font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*
>XTerm*visualBell: true
>XTerm*titeInhibit: true
>urxvt*secondaryScreen: false
>The most important part is the XTerm*titeInhibit: true, it is beyond me
>why that isn't the default everywhere (it prevents a screen clear when
>you're, say, done reading a man page). I want to get rid of the title
>bar but haven't explored that as I launch most of my xterms from a
>script. Extract:
>nohup xterm -name $h -title $h -ls -mc none +tb +mb -vb -sb -sl 99999
>-background grey95 -fg black -cr black -ms black -font
>"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" -e ssh -Yq root@$h
>/dev/null & 2>&1
>Naturally $h is the server :)
>To get the fonts I launched xfontsel and went through it and
>experimented. Use the 'select' button to put the string into the
>buffer.
>Brian
Thank you, Brian.
It seems that full XLFD font name was necessary.
Best regards.
Jean Johner
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* Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
2010-08-06 8:30 JOHNER Jean 066030
@ 2010-08-06 8:34 ` Thomas Dickey
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From: Thomas Dickey @ 2010-08-06 8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> 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
yes (one of the features of Xft is that it provides no error messages,
but simply uses the default font if there's any problem...)
> 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.
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* Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
@ 2010-08-06 8:30 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-06 8:34 ` Thomas Dickey
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From: JOHNER Jean 066030 @ 2010-08-06 8:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
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
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* Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
2010-08-05 20:57 JOHNER Jean 066030
@ 2010-08-05 22:32 ` Thomas Dickey
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From: Thomas Dickey @ 2010-08-05 22:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
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* How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
@ 2010-08-05 20:57 JOHNER Jean 066030
2010-08-05 22:32 ` Thomas Dickey
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From: JOHNER Jean 066030 @ 2010-08-05 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
Hello,
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"
which gives an error message.
Thank you for your help.
Jean Johner
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