How to identify xterm font

[David Fleck]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nathan Kinkade wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:31:09AM +0000, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
>> I like the size of the xterm window.  It is small and it uses very
>> easy to read font.  Unfortunately, it does not play very well with
>> emacs.  For these reasons I use Gnome terminal.  Gnome font is bigger,
>> thus it takes more space on the screen.  How do I identify which font
>> is used by xterm, so I can apply it for gnome terminal?
>>
>> I also would like to know why my ~/.Xdefaults configuration is not
>> applied in Gnome.  It worked just fine in KDE and most other
>> environments.
>
> I can't answer this question, but want to chime in on this thread just
> because I had the same question a few weeks ago, but could never figure
> it out.  I poked around my system and Googled until I was blue in the
> face, but came up with nothing.  The reason is that I had recently
> switched from rxvt to urxvt (for Unicode support) and the default font,
> or whichever one it ended up grabbing) looked awful, but I liked very
> much the font that rxvt was using.  I even ran a kernel trace on the
> program in an attempt to figure out what font it was settling on, but
> was only able to get a partial answer from that, as the font lines were
> truncated.  As I say, this doesn't help, but I post here only in the
> hope that perhaps another post to the thread will catch someones eye who
> might know how to figure out what font a particular X terminal is using
> when it hasn't been explicity set already.

Don't know about rxvt or urxvt, but for plain old xterm, the font settings 
are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.


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David Fleck
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