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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!torn!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!mars.ascio.net!usenet From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: how do I change fonts in X Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:39:42 GMT Organization: Ascio Communications Lines: 22 Message-ID: <333db075.172648698@news.ascio.net> References: <5gpacr$mpo@eirene.wingnet.net> <5h94m1$gua@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: moncton-1.ascio.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6466 On 25 Mar 1997 18:14:25 GMT, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >You can also override the fonts from the xterm command line, using the >-xrdb switch. However, if you're gonna override all 6 fonts, it's an >impressive commandline. ;-) We won't even get into the length of the font names :) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* etc. I could never figure out why all that is so necessary, but anyhow, X isn't what I deal with, and I just use it for fun, so I really didn't bother taking the time to figure out why they couldn't have used fontname.fontsize or something :) Ciao. +---------------------------------------------------+ |Lance Cavener cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca | +---------------------------------------------------+ | "I would never lie. I willfully participated in a | | campaign of misinformation." - Fox Mulder | +---------------------------------------------------+