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Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ?

From Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ?
Date 2014-05-02 15:03 +0200
Organization gnu
Message-ID <87ha585o4h.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <Jeff-Relf.Me@Apr.25{16.50.Seattle.2014}> <ljjtp9$oj5$2@dont-email.me> <20140502010218.660@usenet.drumscum.be> <ljumsk$79f$1@dont-email.me> <1xl0t1wxmfu7g.1fr6vy80rtrzh.dlg@40tude.net>

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flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Thu, 1 May 2014 19:55:00 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> TomB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On 2014-04-27, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>> 
>> He has a brain?  Get outa town!
>> 
>>>> On 04/25/2014 07:50 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>>>> DFS,  Is it hard to change xterm's font ?
>>>>
>>>> Not hard - but to change it permanently you have to Google for the exact 
>>>> string, then create or edit the ~/.Xresources file.
>>>
>>> % man xterm would do the trick too
>> 
>> Or ~/.Xdefaults.
>> 
>> It is no harder than editing the Registry.
>
> Yea, but with Windows you don't have to edit the Registry to change
> the fonts in a command prompt.
>
> Nice self nuke Chris Ahlstrom.

He really is a serious fucking idiot at times.

Plus he forgot the xrdb merge....

Then you have the issues with case and actually finding the documented x
resources an app uses.

eg
http://askubuntu.com/questions/389633/xrdb-merge-xresources-disables-gtk-anti-aliasing


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              Is it hard to change xterm's font ?  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-25 16:50 -0700
                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-25 21:19 -0400
                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-27 17:45 -0400
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                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 23:06 +0000
                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-01 19:55 -0400
                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-02 07:46 -0400
                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 15:03 +0200
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                Re: Is it hard to change xterm's font ? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 11:22 -0700
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