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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, 20 Jul 2010 16:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720161028.GA22007@ateb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiknWjfmTlO_OnthTYOER5qjHXmGt5BolwiIbCOv@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:00:21PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> xlsfonts
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> . . .
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso10646-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-10
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-13
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-14
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-15
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-3
> ....
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Then I changed .Xdefaults to
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> aterm*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> XTerm.font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> urxvt*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Next, I selected the font with xfontsel, and then started
> up an xterm
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> result: the font did not change
> Is something incorrect or out of order?
> 
> matt.
> 
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did you restart X after modifying Xdefaults?

this page
http://sgenomics.org/~jtang/blog/posts/Reloading_Xdefaults_without_restarting_X/

notes that

To reread your .Xresources file, and throw away your old resources, you
can type:

xrdb ~/.Xdefaults


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20 16:00 matias kaukonen
2010-07-20 16:10 ` Reid Thompson [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-13 13:09 matias kaukonen
2010-07-13 13:12 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-07-12 20:59 matias kaukonen
2010-07-12 21:28 ` Thomas Dickey
2010-07-13 14:33 ` Reid Thompson
2010-07-13 14:44   ` Reid Thompson
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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