Instead of specifying -fa, you can set faceName in your .Xresources
file (at least, it works on my copy of xterm, XFree86 4.2.0

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a corresponding escape
sequence, so I can't make tn5250 send it to Xterm...


On 28 Oct 2002, Lapo Calamandrei wrote:
>
> newer xterm (form xfree 4.0.3 and above) has freetype support which let
> you use trutype fonts with xft which renders nice antialiased fonts. To
> use this features you need to have freetype2 lib and you need to compile
> X with freetype support (btw, every distro do this now), after that you
> have to invoke xterm using -fa [trutype font name] and not -fn [x font
> name or alias] e.g. : xterm -fa 'Andale Mono'. I don't know how to
> specify this in .Xresources, since this feature is not very well
> documented atm.
> The DECCOLM escape seq to swich between 80 and 132 mode works in
> freetype mode, since it resize the term windows, but it doesn't change
> the font. Also in ft mode, the vt fonts menu doesn't work (well., it
> works, but it does nothing), please see my other posts in this thread.
>
> Greatings
> Lapo
>

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