Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"?
I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled without support for -fa > Note : that works on XTerm v325 ( tested ). I've recompiled xterm with useflag truetype enabled and now I have the -fa flag so I can run the command you mentioned above now. That is a nice looking font... a little big on my view but I see something a bit off here... trying to get a smaller font of the same type I went clear down to 4x6... but those all look just like the "9x15B-ISO8859-1" xterm -fa 4x6-ISO8859-1 Does not say anything by way of error or explanation just shows a terminal with the same font displayed as "9x15B-ISO8859-1" That can't be a desirable outcome. It must just be displaying the same size from 9x 8x 7x 6x 5x 4x. and doing so silently. I'm not running a font server. > The Xorg Xft font server docs specifically show how to set the "default" > font in Xterm. Look for the section 'Configuring applications' > > Reference Link : > >> https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html Thanks for the link... much as I been googling I'm surprised I did not see that one already... it looks quite thorough.
