Re: fonts in X11
Re: fonts in X11
- Subject: Re: fonts in X11
- From: Ettore Aldrovandi <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:43:19 -0500 (EST)
P T Withington <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Ettore Aldrovandi <email@hidden>
>>
>> I call an xterm with the Monaco font from my .xinitrc as follows:
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -sb -fa monaco -fs 14 &
>
>Is there a way to specify this in .Xresources? (I'm particularly
>interested in emacs and xterm.)
>
>I tried monaco at 10pts both aliased and anti-aliased, and it looks
>poor compared to misc-fixed-medium. (I _want_ to like Monaco, since it
>has a slashed zero, etc.)
Well, I don't know about emacs (I use the Carbon one most of the time), but
for xterm the resource corresponding to the -fa (for face) switch is the
faceName
resource. So something like
XTerm*faceName: Monaco
should work (?)
In general the application must have support for true type fonts.
--
Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics mailto:email@hidden
Florida State University http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
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