xterm 320-1 won't start with XTerm*faceName set in .Xresources

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Brian Neu" <cygwin@brianneu.com>
| To: cygwin@cygwin.com
| Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 3:57:33 PM
| Subject: Re: xterm 320-1 won't start with XTerm*faceName set in .Xresources
| 
| On 11/2/2015 4:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
| > Perhaps you are missing your preferred font.  What had you
| > specified for
| > XTerm*faceName?
| 
| BitStream Vera Sans Mono
| 
| Is there something that I can do to produce more debug information out
| of xterm as it launches.

Only partly: Xft avoids giving useful error messages.

You can use the xterm -report-fonts option to show what it does, but if there
are no TrueType fonts available, I would expect no useful output.

| 
| Honestly, I'm not even sure how to get a list of available fonts.

fc-list

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