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Subject: Re: setting xterm font from the command line
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in message <40DB463D.5020402@code-fu.com>,
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 don't mind ...  Does the xterm start w/ the given font
string? Which type of font syntax -- string enclosed in single
quotes or only the quotation of white space -- worked?



  - Parv

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