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Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:33:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font
- References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4D9@THEZE.intra.cea.fr>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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