Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: cant set twm/vtwm fonts Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 90 02:33:30 GMT References: <270BAACD.24980@orion.oac.uci.edu> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 21 In-reply-to: gcardwel@okazaki.acs.uci.edu's message of 4 Oct 90 21:34:05 GMT In article <270BAACD.24980@orion.oac.uci.edu> gcardwel@okazaki.acs.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell) writes: gcardwel> I cant seem to get twm to let me change any of its fonts to be gcardwel> something different. In my twmrc I wrote: gcardwel> TitleFont "12x24" on none of the x11r2, r3 or r4 servers that i've seen is `12x24' a standard font, so loading the font fails and you get the default. try `-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'. gcardwel> A little work with xdbx revealed the following information: gcardwel> ..... this is interesting but not desperately relevant. it all hangs together in real life - believe it. gcardwel> Guy Cardwell dave. -- Dave Edmondson, Systems Support. Opinions are all my own. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ. phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 email: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu ``Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective'' -- Jazzy B