On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote: > While I fished around a bit, I don't see how to specify a different > font... say for xterm. The 'Control Center' didn't seem to offer help
It's not a gnome issue to setup the fonts for xterm. You can, however, use gnome-terminal and get a point'n'click interface to change fonts. For xterm, fonts can be selected on a one-shot basis with the -fn command-line option to xterm. Examples: xterm -fn fixed xterm -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*" xterm -fn "-*-avant garde gothic-*-*-*-*" If you want to select fonts on a more permanent basis you will need to use X resources. You can see the system default resources in the directory /etc/X11/Xresources. You can also play with the command editres. Finally, there is a howto: http://bsd7.starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu/~samson/HOWTO/html/XWindow-User-HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO-8.html (it is actually documented in excruciating detail in the official X docs -- but who wants to read that many hundred pages?) > Speaking of help, when I click on the ? icon on the bottom of my screen, > I get a window with 'Could not load default TOC page'. However, when I > click on Help in the menu of 'Control Center' it does open html pages of > help A gnome configuration issue -- nothing to do with XFree86, or even X in general. > I tried importing a jpg file that I use in windows as screen background. > Should gnome accept it? It seemed to politely ignore it. Is this feature > limited to solid colors? Again, a gnome issue. It's got nothing to do with X. (btw. jpeg files work fine on my system -- I suspect you are using an older version where nautilus and other pieces of the system fight over who gets to draw the background -- your background might actually show the jpeg but nautilus covers it with a window with icons on it that looks like the background but isn't. You can tell Nautilus not to, tell nautilus to draw the jpeg or get a newer version of gnome) > BTW, on a personal note, my long-term memory is quite excellent and > indeed improving with time; however my short-term memory ain't quite > what it used to be since bypass surgery. As for age, that is a state > secret, but I will confess to occasionally dating women easily young > enough to be offspring and plenty old enough to vote. I suppose that's > both bragging and complaining :) I hope to be happily married at that age but I think I can settle for what you have there... :) -Peter "We need to see ex-girlfriends occasionally so that we remember why we aren't with them anymore." _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
