From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 12:52:11 2005 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 AC7FB16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:52:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3348D43D53 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:52:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond (12-216-7-29.client.mchsi.com[12.216.7.29]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with SMTP id <20050311125208m920039po6e>; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:52:08 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:52:06 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@grond.sourballs.org To: Nathan Kinkade In-Reply-To: <20050310230355.GE3647@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Message-ID: <20050311065046.Y98716@grond.sourballs.org> References: <20050310230355.GE3647@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to identify xterm font 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, 11 Mar 2005 12:52:11 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:31:09AM +0000, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: >> I like the size of the xterm window. It is small and it uses very >> easy to read font. Unfortunately, it does not play very well with >> emacs. For these reasons I use Gnome terminal. Gnome font is bigger, >> thus it takes more space on the screen. How do I identify which font >> is used by xterm, so I can apply it for gnome terminal? >> >> I also would like to know why my ~/.Xdefaults configuration is not >> applied in Gnome. It worked just fine in KDE and most other >> environments. > > I can't answer this question, but want to chime in on this thread just > because I had the same question a few weeks ago, but could never figure > it out. I poked around my system and Googled until I was blue in the > face, but came up with nothing. The reason is that I had recently > switched from rxvt to urxvt (for Unicode support) and the default font, > or whichever one it ended up grabbing) looked awful, but I liked very > much the font that rxvt was using. I even ran a kernel trace on the > program in an attempt to figure out what font it was settling on, but > was only able to get a partial answer from that, as the font lines were > truncated. As I say, this doesn't help, but I post here only in the > hope that perhaps another post to the thread will catch someones eye who > might know how to figure out what font a particular X terminal is using > when it hasn't been explicity set already. Don't know about rxvt or urxvt, but for plain old xterm, the font settings are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com