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On 03/05/2017 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net> writes: |
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>> Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? |
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> I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. |
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> I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag |
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> truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled |
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> without support for -fa |
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>> Note : that works on XTerm v325 ( tested ). |
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> I've recompiled xterm with useflag truetype enabled and now I have the |
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> -fa flag so I can run the command you mentioned above now. |
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> That is a nice looking font... a little big on my view but |
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> I see something a bit off here... trying to get a smaller font of the |
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> same type I went clear down to 4x6... but those all look just like |
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> the "9x15B-ISO8859-1" |
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> xterm -fa 4x6-ISO8859-1 |
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> Does not say anything by way of error or explanation just shows a |
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> terminal with the same font displayed as "9x15B-ISO8859-1" |
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> That can't be a desirable outcome. |
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> It must just be displaying the same size from 9x 8x 7x 6x 5x 4x. and |
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> doing so silently. |
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> I'm not running a font server. |
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>> The Xorg Xft font server docs specifically show how to set the "default" |
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>> font in Xterm. Look for the section 'Configuring applications' |
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>> Reference Link : |
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>>> https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html |
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> Thanks for the link... much as I been googling I'm surprised I did not |
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> see that one already... it looks quite thorough. |
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The Xft server is really 'fontconfig'. No daemon running at all. |
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Compile with both USE flags "truetype unicode" and the local USE flag |
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"toolbar". |
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That will give you control of the font size. |
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( xterm -> VT Fonts, uxterm -> Unicode Fonts ) |
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Reference Links : |
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( Use flags ) |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-terms/xterm |
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( XTerm FAQ ) |
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http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html |
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( Frequent problems ) |
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http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#frequent_problems |
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( Scaled Fonts ) |
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http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#scaled_font |
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Corbin |
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