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Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

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On 2016-10-07, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@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 <mark27q1@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. 

"Monospace" is likely to be an alias. Use the command 'fc-match
Monospace' to find out what real font is subsituted.

> 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

Run 'fc-match bollocks' or 'fc-match "utter bollocks"'. :) In both cases
you'll get the system-wide fallback font, which is DejaVuSans.ttf in my
case.

>
> How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them?

The command fc-list will give you a list of fonts known to fontconfig.
By default, only truetype fonts are considered.

>
> Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal?

As others have pointed out, yes.

>
> Mark
>
>

-- 

Liam

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Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 10:10 +0200
  Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-24 10:30 +0200
    Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 16:20 +0200
      Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-24 16:30 +0200
        Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 16:30 +0200
          Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-09-24 18:40 +0200
            Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 16:30 +0200
            Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 17:10 +0200
              Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-25 18:00 +0200
              Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-09-25 22:10 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 14:50 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-07 15:00 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-07 17:10 +0200
                Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 02:10 +0200
  Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-09-25 23:10 +0200

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