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Subject: Re: setting xterm font from the command line
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>>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 correct font syntax (w/o the single quotes but
> w/ quoted space), epilogue's syntax /also/ works for me.

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.

Thanks a million, guys!!

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