On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:56:25PM -0400, robert delius royar wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 about 22:19 +0100 UTC Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> > Use the -fn and -fs options to xterm. e.g.:
> >
> > xterm -fn monaco -fs 10
> >
> > You can also specify these as resources in your .Xdefaults file, e.g.:
> >
> > xterm*faceName: monaco
> > xterm*faceSize: 10
> >
> > Tim
>
> Have you tried this? I have, and the response (from the console log is)
> xterm: unable to open font "monaco", trying "fixed"....
>
> I get similar responses when I try to use FreeType installed fonts also,
> even though I installed the FreeType directory and include it in my font
> path. Maybe it just doesn't work on some systems?
It does, but I made a mistake. This relates to my other post in this
thread this morning. There are two distinct font handling mechanisms
compiled into apple's xterm. One of them is the traditional X font
mechanism, which uses the -fn flag. One of them is FreeType, which
gives you access to the native scalable (and antialiased) fonts, and
that uses the -fa and -fs options. So, my command line was incorrect;
it asked for a UNIX-style font called Monaco. None exists, so it
reverted to the default (fixed). If you say:
xterm -fa monaco -fs 10
It should work. Using FreeType fonts breaks some xterm functionality -
in particular the xterm menu which controls font size no longer works.
X11.app comes with a program called xfontsel which will show you all the
standard X fonts supplied on your system. You'll see that it also
cannot see the Aqua native fonts.
Tim
--
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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