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From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: weird Xterm font problem
Message-ID: <JWZ.91Apr7015454@thalidomide.lucid.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 07:54:54 GMT
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Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
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I have my prompt string set to control codes that make it print in 
boldface, like so:

  setenv enter_standout "^[[1m"  #  the ^[ is really an ESC
  setenv exit_standout  "^[[m"
  alias setprompt set prompt = \
      \"\$\{enter_standout\}\$\{cwd:t\}\>\$\{exit_standout\} \"
  alias cd 'cd \!*; setprompt'

When I start up a new xterm, this doesn't work.  I have to select the
"default" menu item from the xterm "font" menu first.  

Anyone got a fix?  Or is there any way to make xterm automatically 
execute this menu item when it starts up?

The only font-related resource that I have which affects xterm is
"*font: *-courier-medium-r-*-12-*".  The font doesn't seem to matter.

	-- Jamie