From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23237 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2010 16:10:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 23225 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2010 16:10:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gwnmta1.va.gov (HELO gwnmta1.tic.va.gov) (152.133.26.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:10:31 +0000 X-SBRS: None X-MID: 315711849 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD24B088D3@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> In-Reply-To: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4DA@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4DA@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> From: "Timares, Brian (HP)" To: 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/msg00040.txt.bz2 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 -- 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/