From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17389 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2010 08:34:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 17376 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2010 08:34:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 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; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:34:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234D624415A for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:34:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Score: 1.183 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 sV5CF+-yAYZJ for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (dc-7.his.net [108.56.65.7]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6692F244145 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:34:19 -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 o768Xt9A008319 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:33:55 -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 o768XtoO008316 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:33:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:34:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font In-Reply-To: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4D9@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> Message-ID: <20100806043149.H98743@mail101.his.com> References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4D9@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> 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: 2010-08/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 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. -- 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/