On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900 > >> Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >> > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:00:33PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > Also I just ran mutt in an X terminal instead by invoking xterm from > > Gnome-Terminal, and although the font is horrible and the window is too > > small, it does NOT display the same psychotic intermittent scrolling > > behaviour. > > [...] > > FWIW, you can tell xterm to use freetype fonts, e.g., > > xterm -fa "Monospace 12" > > Alternatively, use the faceName resource in your ~/.Xresources file. >
Monospace 12 doesn't seem to exist on my system. In fact I haven't found what fonts I can use -- anything at all I put after xterm -fa results in the same thing -- an entirely usable, if a little bit large, xterm window with standard 80x24, which bahaves perfectly from the point of view of my original post. As an example I am writing this mail in Mutt on such an xterm launched with : xterm -fa bollocks How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them? Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal? Mark