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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm and vt fonts
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Date: 11 Apr 91 16:00:08 GMT
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    Suggestions for future xterms would be to allow resource and command line
    control of what font is used for all menus and EACH menu, as well as what
    font is used as the DEFAULT (different from menus).  A bigger font menu
    would also be nice; better yet dynamically adjusted for however many fonts
    I specify.  It should allow me to specially name them (instead of just
    "small", "medium", "large", with the default names as is now, and an option
    to have them named as their real font names instead.  Samples of the fonts
    in the menu would also be nice.
    
    Do I wish for a lot?  OF COURSE!

That's not really asking a lot.  Most of this already exists in the R4
xterm.  As with our other client programs, you can use resources to
customize many aspects of xterm, including fonts, labels, and menu
values.  You can set resources for the menu class (SimpleMenu, in the
case of xterm) to affect all menus.  Or you can set resources for the
individual menus by name (e.g., fontMenu).

To set the font used for all menu items in all menus independent of
the default font for the VT100 window,

XTerm*SimpleMenu*Font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

And to change the second alternative font and use a different font and
label for it in the font menu,

XTerm*VT100*font2:		6x13
XTerm*fontMenu*font2*Font:	6x13
XTerm*fontMenu*font2*Label:	Narrow

Look at /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for more examples of xterm
resource settings.  For further information, read the xterm manual page.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium