Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!soleil!mlb.semi.harris.com!beep!geg From: geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xterm default font Message-ID: <1990Dec6.023953.6599@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 02:39:53 GMT References: <1990Dec5.011516.1691@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> <49246@seismo.CSS.GOV> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Reply-To: geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) Organization: Manufacturing Systems, HSS, Melbourne FL Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: beep.mlb.semi.harris.com In article , khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) writes: |> In article <49246@seismo.CSS.GOV> bonnett@seismo.CSS.GOV (H. David Bonnett) writes: |> |> and from my .xresourcerc (Xdefaults) |> |> xterm*Font: *courier-medium-r-*-140-* |> |> The * tells xrdb to ignore all intermediate classes. |> |> xterm.vt100.font : *courier-medium-r-*-140-* |> |> should work as well. |> |> line switches like -fn to set the font. I set my default font in |> .Xdefaults as: |> XTerm.vt100.font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |> | Does anybody know if there is a good reason for Sun using such a brain-dead method of specifying font names in OpenWindows? What was wrong with the MIT release's method of using a fonts.alias file so that you could refer to this font by a simple name of say... courR14? -- Greg Garland - Alive, occupying space, and exerting gravitational force MS 62-024, Harris Semiconductor Sector, PO Bx 883, Melbourne FL 32905. geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com "Never let the facts interfere with your perception of reality."