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From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com>
Subject: Re: changing font
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100713143314.GC12149@ateb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimV8oajGRvGKIeuAlfdcuS67NSsoQnpETLAEbet@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, 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?

lookup the xlsfonts and xfontsel packages and how to use them to get a
font.

i.e.

$ xlsfonts |grep -i terminus|grep medium
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-13
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-15
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-16
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-2
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-5
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-7
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-9
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-koi8-r
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-koi8-u
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-microsoft-cp1251
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-paratype-pt154
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-13
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-15
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-16
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-2
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-5
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-7
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-9
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-koi8-r
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-koi8-u
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-microsoft-cp1251
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-paratype-pt154
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1
....snip....

$ grep -i termin .Xdefaults 
aterm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
Xterm.font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
urxvt*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-13 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-12 20:59 matias kaukonen
2010-07-12 21:28 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-07-13 14:33 ` Reid Thompson [this message]
2010-07-13 14:44   ` Reid Thompson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-20 16:00 matias kaukonen
2010-07-20 16:10 ` Reid Thompson
2010-07-20 17:06   ` matias kaukonen
2010-07-20 17:44 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-07-20 18:59   ` matias kaukonen
2010-08-30 20:23     ` matias kaukonen
2010-08-31 12:34       ` Thomas Dickey
2010-08-31 17:00         ` matias kaukonen
2010-09-01  9:07           ` Thomas Dickey
2010-09-01 14:33             ` matias kaukonen
2010-07-13 13:09 matias kaukonen
2010-07-13 13:12 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-06-27  1:03 matias kaukonen
2010-06-27  1:21 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-06-22 13:11 matias kaukonen
2010-06-22 17:21 ` Mike Ayers

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