From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 25 11:23:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952E016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:23:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668F043D1D for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:23:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msmith@code-fu.com) Received: from code-fu.com (pcp08554411pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net[68.86.0.124]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004062511221301500cuvgae>; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:22:13 +0000 Message-ID: <40DC0AE8.6040607@code-fu.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:22:16 -0400 From: "Michael A. Smith" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parv References: <40DA34AA.20906@code-fu.com> <20040623221647.V88483@wonkity.com> <40DABF4C.3070901@code-fu.com> <20040624180709.GA622@moo.holy.cow> <20040624145011.71cbd047@localhost> <20040624191758.GA2511@moo.holy.cow> <40DB463D.5020402@code-fu.com> <20040625031228.GB3036@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20040625031228.GB3036@moo.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting xterm font from the command line X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:23:44 -0000 Parv wrote: >> 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? I did not use single quotes and I backslashed the spaces: xterm -sl 3000 -fs 8 \ -fa -bitstream-bitstream\ vera\ sans\ mono-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* I wasn't able to properly set the font size (using -fs 8) with the -fn option. I switched to -fa (and -fb) and it works like a charm. Thanks for all your help! -- Michael A. Smith ($do || !$do) && undef($try); # Master of Perl, Yoda is. Hmmmm?