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Subject: Re: setting xterm font from the command line
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in message <20040624145011.71cbd047@localhost>,
wrote epilogue@allstream.net thusly...
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400
> Parv <parv@pair.com> 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 \
> >     '-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
> > 
> 
> i just tried it myself.  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.

Ah but the single quotes are there to avoid expansion of '*' via
shell besides aboding the need to quote the spaces as shown above.

And epilogue(?), yes, your proposed syntax does cause xterm not to
find the desired Bitstream font; default font, fixed, is used
instead (when the command is being executed in bash 2.05b).


  - Parv

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