Short version: What's the right way to shop for fonts in Apple's X11 environment?
Long: My terminal is xterm. I know the cool kids use others, but I'm stuck to X11 and screen/scry, and the other terminals I've tried won't support that environment. Recently I started using zprezto (a rewrite of oh-my-zsh). It's great, but it uses fonts that don't exist in Apple's (X11's?) default fixed-width font, so characters come up as squares, or worse, control sequences. For days now, I've been trying to change the font my xterm uses. So far I've found where to handle that -- wasn't easy, I'm not all that well versed in The X11 Way -- but now I'm at the stage of needing to shop for a font that my shell can use, and I'm stuck. I figure I'm overlooking something basic. How do I shop for a character set in Apple's X11 layout? As far as I can find, there isn't any GUI for it, and the files where the font tables are stored aren't human readable. This posting was a life saver: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/35320/are-there-any-ways-to-improve-the-font-rendering-in-x11-app-xquartz ...but to demonstrate my ignorance, while adding this to my .Xresources got me a new font: XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono *faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono ...it wasn't good enough, the same characters still fail to render. Okay, next I thought, the same place that holds DejaVu will hold other fonts to try out, but, % find /opt/X11 -type f -exec grep -il dejavu {} \; ...comes up empty. I know from past experience that font files don't really work that way but it was worth a shot... Clue me up? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
