Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default

From	Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) <xianwen.chen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default
Date	2020-10-19 15:10 +0200
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Thank you all!  

For me font size 13 is the better balance between visibility and
space-efficiency. Otherwise everything works like a charm! 

Cheers, 

Xianwen

On 2020-10-19 12:26, grumpy@mailfence.com wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, Brian wrote:
> 
> On Mon 19 Oct 2020 at 07:18:39 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> Xianwen Chen (?????????) wrote: Hi,
> 
> When I hold Ctrl and right click on uxterm, a menu shows up, where I can
> click to enable TrueType fonts.
> 
> I would like to enable TrueType fonts by default.
> 
> I guess I could do it by setting it up in ~/.Xresources and use xrdb to
> merge it. However, I do not know which TrueType font(s) uxterm used,
> when I manually Ctrl + Right Click to enable it. Or, is there an option
> in a config file where I just ask uxterm to use TrueType and let uxterm
> to decide which TrueType font to use? 
> The other way around: add a default font and you don't have to
> say anything else.
> 
> xterm -fa 'Inconsolata' -fs 14

In my .Xresources I have:

xterm*faceName: Inconsolata
xterm*faceSize: 15 
and xterm*renderFont: true

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To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)  <xianwen.chen@gmail.com> - 2020-10-19 11:50 +0200
  Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-19 13:20 +0200
    Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-10-19 14:00 +0200
      Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-10-19 14:30 +0200
        Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)  <xianwen.chen@gmail.com> - 2020-10-19 15:10 +0200

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