From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22346 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2010 21:28:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 22335 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2010 21:28:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dc-8.his.net (HELO smtp304.his.com) (108.56.65.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:28:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5D92441F6 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:28:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Score: 1.187 Received: from smtp304.his.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp304.his.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ghuN4kUosNDH for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:28:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (dc-7.his.net [108.56.65.7]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03D52441DF for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:28:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o6CLSOII080192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:28:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Received: from localhost (dickey@localhost) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o6CLSNh2080188 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:28:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:28:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: changing font In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20100712172520.Y54864@mail101.his.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-07/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: > 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post. > 2. I have a font I'd like to use and its located at > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF with > administrator permissions. > 3. How can I make this font the default for an xterm? Do I have to > set the path in > some manner? You have to tell xterm to use the font by setting some resource values. One is the name of the font, which you may be able to find using fc-list (that would be the "faceName" resource), and the other is the renderFont resource, set that to true to tell xterm to use TTF's rather than bitmap fonts by default. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/