Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!mcnc!duke!khera From: khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xterm default font Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 20:32:10 GMT References: <1990Dec5.011516.1691@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> <49246@seismo.CSS.GOV> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: thneed.cs.duke.edu In-reply-to: bonnett@seismo.CSS.GOV's message of 5 Dec 90 18:56:03 GMT 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. one thing to note is that because of the way xterm handles resources, if you specify fonts this way you cannot override them using command line switches like -fn to set the font. I set my default font in .Xdefaults as: XTerm.vt100.font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which uses the xterm class name so i can use the command line switches. not all applications work this way, though. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vick Khera, Gradual Student/Systems Guy Department of Computer Science ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University UUCP: ...!mcnc!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706 (919) 660-6528