On 03/05/2017 01:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> writes: > > [...] > >> Please clarify ... ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), >> ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), and/or specific xterm ( i.e >> "x11-terms/xterm" ). > > This is a full X host running lxde for desktop The xterm I speak of > is the real McCoy .. the one Thomas Dickey has maintained since mid > to late 90s. > > In this case: x11-terms/xterm version 327 But I just noticed when > pretend emerge just now to see what the use flags were... I see it > defaults to -truetype use flag... which may be significant. > > I'm re-emerging with USE=truetype might make some difference. > > But still would not explain the fonts that are not true type failing > to load. > > Do you know if some EXTRA_ECONF or something is needed to make xterm > recognize its -fa switch? > > I've seen in several places that -fa font-name is used instead of > -fn font-name > > Here xterm calls it a bad switch or something like and fails to load > the font. > > xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1.pcf" xterm: bad command line option "-fa" > > xterm -fn "9x15B-ISO8859-1.pcf" xterm: cannot load font > '9x15B-ISO8859-1.pcf' > > And without the quotes: > > xterm -fn 9x15B-ISO8859-1.pcf xterm: cannot load font > '9x15B-ISO8859-1.pcf' > > >
Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? Note : that works on XTerm v325 ( tested ). The Xorg Xft font server docs specifically show how to set the "default" font in Xterm. Look for the section 'Configuring applications' Reference Link : > https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html Font Directory : /usr/share/fonts/misc/ Corbin
