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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 xterm font trick
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Date: 13 Jul 90 14:44:39 GMT
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In article <18030@ultima.cs.uts.oz>, keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris
Keane) writes:
|> 
|> Ah, but how to I change these default fonts to what *I* want? I tried
|> setting (what I think) are the appropriate resources, but no go :-(

Take a look at the app-defaults file for xterm.  You'll see the following
section:

XTerm*fontMenu.Label:  VT Fonts
XTerm*fontMenu*fontdefault*Label:       Default
XTerm*fontMenu*font1*Label:     Tiny
XTerm*VT100*font1:              nil2
XTerm*fontMenu*font2*Label:     Small
XTerm*VT100*font2:              6x10
XTerm*fontMenu*font3*Label:     Medium
XTerm*VT100*font3:              8x13
XTerm*fontMenu*font4*Label:     Large
XTerm*VT100*font4:              9x15
XTerm*fontMenu*fontescape*Label:        Escape Sequence
XTerm*fontMenu*fontsel*Label:           Selection

This worked for me (I now have a really large "Large" font).

I noticed that setting XTerm*font1 didn't work, and I suspect
that it's because this specification is too loose to work (that
is, it matches resources with different types).

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