walt <w41...@gmail.com> writes: > On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > <snip all questions I can't answer> > >> When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the >> xterm crashes. > > I had the same problem once. IIRC, strace showed me that xterm was trying > to load the "default" font but there was no value set for "default". > > Somehow I managed to set the "default" font, but I can't remember how it > did it. Maybe someone else can supply details?
My xterm shows that it's using the default font. I would guess that the default might be set through .Xresources or through command line parameters. There's not much explanation here, the following just works for me: AFAIK, the font names are case sensitive. For .Xresources: xterm*FaceName: xft:Source Code Pro:pixelsize=14:style=Regular You can also use 'xterm -fa "LucidaTypewriter-16"', see man xterm. Support for truetype must be compiled into xterm (x11-terms/xterm truetype). If you use fvwm with tt-fonts, also use 'truetype'. As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro". They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately, they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs. I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows how to do that? And for emacs, in .Xressources: Emacs.FontBackend: xft and in .emacs: (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "green" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal :foundry "adobe" :family "Source Code Pro")))) '(font-lock-comment-delimiter-face ((t (:inherit font-lock-comment-face :foreground "deep sky blue")))) '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "goldenrod")))) '(font-lock-warning-face ((t (:inherit error :foreground "DarkSlateGray1"))))) with: app-editors/emacs X athena Xaw3d xft -gtk -motif tookit-scroll-bars gif imagemagick jpeg png svg tiff xpm gnutls gzip-el inotify libxml2 wide-int To show which fonts are installed, there's 'fc-list'. When you want user specific fonts, put them into ~/.config/fonts/ and run 'fc-cache'. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
