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Subject: Xterm font menu?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 12:58:10 GMT
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In article <JWZ.91Apr7015454@thalidomide.lucid.com> jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>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.  

Hey, how do you get a "font" menu from xterm?  I've often wanted to find
out what fonts are available to xterm, and the answer seems to be different
on every system.  You can't just look through /usr/lib/X11/fonts; you can
see things there that xterm will refuse to use.  The xterm manual page here
makes no mention of the word "menu" in association with the word "font".
How can I get my xterms to show me a font menu?  Or am I minconstruing
the above remark?