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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:51:27
Message-Id: 20151120205054.GA21020@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts? by Emanuele Rusconi
1 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:15AM +0100, Emanuele Rusconi wrote
2 > If it helps, I have these two lines in my ~/.Xresources:
3 >
4 > XTerm*faceName: Terminus
5 > XTerm*faceSize: 13
6
7 It didn't work. xterm died on me again. Going with the font I
8 specified before, and cycling through the choices, here is what I got in
9 the console that launched X
10
11 ========================================
12 Huge
13 /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '10x20'
14
15 Large
16 /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '9x15'
17
18 Medium
19 /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '7x13'
20
21 Small
22 /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '6x10'
23
24 Tiny
25 /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '5x7'
26
27 Unreadable works
28
29 Default works
30 ========================================
31
32 At least I now know what it it wants. File-attached is a gzipped dump
33 from xlsfonts on that machine. I've read documentation on the output
34 format, but I don't know what to do next.
35
36 --
37 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
38 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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