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. > > -- > 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/
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 -- 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/