Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour
Date	2016-10-07 17:10 +0200
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On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 21:47:37 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 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.

'xterm -fa "Monospace 12' might be better as

  xterm -fa "Monospace" -fs 12
 
> As an example I am writing this mail in Mutt on such an xterm launched with :
> 
> xterm -fa bollocks
> 
> How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them?

Any TrueType font. Examples:

  xterm -fa "freesans" -fs 16
  xterm -fa "droidsansmono" -fs 16
  xterm -fa "dejavuserifcondensed" -fs 16

See /usr/share/fonts for what you have.

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

Perfectly normal. You have to create and populate it. Correctly done you
can be confident it will work.

-- 
Brian.

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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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