X Window - how to get the standard font

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2009-04-28T23:01:35+02:00, herbert langhans wrote:

> #xmessage -fn -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* 'hello world'
> - the same appears in the fontsize I like.
>
> Now the question:
> Can I set the bigger font somewhere, so that i.e. xmessage appears
> always in the preset, bigger font without typing the whole -fn
> -*-*.... string in? Somewhere in .xinitrc?

You can add the line

xmessage*font: -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

to the file `~/.Xresources'.  (I think that file is read at the start
of the X session, but to be certain you can add

xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xresources

to ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession, as the case may be.  I personally keep
my Xresources elsewhere, and merge them as above.)

HTH,
Raghavendra.

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