At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:35:07 -0400 James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Allan> ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font.
> Allan> Its [xlfd] name is
> Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
>
> Allan> Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use
> Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
>
> Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list.
>
> It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given
> xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that
> matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the
> fonts.cache-1 file in that directory.

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Thanks very much for the information,
allan
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