setting xterm font from the command line

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu Jun 24 06:07:40 PDT 2004


Michael A. Smith writes:

>  xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above 
>  (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have spaces, 
>  for example:
>  
>  "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

	As far as I know, a correct fontspec has no spaces.  Try
replacing the ' 's with '-'s and see what happens.



				Robert Huff




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