Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Parv wrote: It works for me now, too. When I was testing every (sic) combination last night, I wasn't always using xterm. Sometimes I used xfterm4 (the XFCE wrapper for xterm) and it DOES barf whether I escape, quote or whatever. If you don't mind ... Does the xterm start w/ the given font

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michael A. Smith
Warren Block wrote: Use xfontsel to choose the font and then specify the exact same thing that it shows: xterm -fn '-bitstream-charter-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Robert Huff
Michael A. Smith writes: xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have spaces, for example: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* As far as I know, a correct fontspec

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michal Pasternak
Robert Huff [Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:05:49AM -0400]: Michael A. Smith writes: xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have spaces, for example: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Michael A. Smith thusly... Warren Block wrote: Use xfontsel to choose the font and then specify the exact same thing that it shows: xterm -fn '-bitstream-charter-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Michael A. Smith thusly... Warren Block wrote: Use xfontsel to choose the font and then specify the exact same thing that it shows: xterm -fn

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried w/ xterms included in 4.3.0 and locally compiled version (patch 187) w/o any problems; the exact command was... xterm -fn \

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried w/ xterms included in 4.3.0 and locally compiled version (patch 187) w/o any problems; the exact command was... xterm -fn \

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:17:58 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried w/ xterms included in 4.3.0 and locally compiled version (patch 187) w/o any

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michael A. Smith
in order for it to work, you *must* escape the fontname whitespace. xterm -fn -bitstream-bitstream\ vera\ sans\mono-*-yada,yada. also, if you're using the ' ' on either end of the fontname (as you've shown above), drop them. Please ignore my previous reply to epilogue's reply. After providing the

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Michael A. Smith thusly... It works for me now, too. When I was testing every (sic) combination last night, I wasn't always using xterm. Sometimes I used xfterm4 (the XFCE wrapper for xterm) and it DOES barf whether I escape, quote or whatever. If you