On 3/24/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > You can even make xterm use > > TrueType fonts through libXft. It's such an improvement. > > > > Well, it would be if I could see it. So far I -think- I've persuaded it > to use DejaVu with > > xterm -u8 -en UTF-8 -xrm 'faceName: Deja Vu Sans Mono' > > which looks as if almost everything is displaying correctly with 'cat', > (might be missing one hebrew glyph, to judge from Kuhn's quickbrown.txt > from ucs-fonts), but it's so *tiny*. Both -fs and e.g. -xrm 'faceSize: > 24' are ignored.
Hmm. Well, I think DejaVu needs to be one word. I just stuffed it in .Xresources. Actually, I have to be fair that I hacked fonts.conf to prefer DejaVu Sans Mono as the top monospace font, but here's what I have in .Xresources: *VT100.locale: 1 ! *VT100.faceName: "DejaVu Sans Mono" ! *VT100.faceName: "Luxi Mono" *VT100.faceName: "Monospace" I'm not on that box to test, but I think the second one worked before I commented it out and made DejaVu the preferred Monospace font. I didn't touch the font size either, and it's the exact opposite. The DejaVu font is huge (but easy on the eyes) compared to the default X monospace font. If you're interested in the font preferences, just find every instance of <family>Bitstream Vera X</family> in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and insert a comparable <family>DejaVu X</family> above it. It wouldn't work if I tried to make it a separate conf file in /etc/fonts/conf.d. > So, I look forward to your definitive work on fonts ;) Well, it's not gonna be definitive. I'm learning as I go, and I really don't know much about controlling X resources. Alexander's post from December has way more info than I can come up with. I'll be putting up a preliminary rendering in ~dnicholson tomorrow for editing. I'm not the expert here, I just hope to get the ball rolling. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
