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Re: changing font
- From: Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:10:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: changing font
- References: <AANLkTiknWjfmTlO_OnthTYOER5qjHXmGt5BolwiIbCOv@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:00:21PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> xlsfonts
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> . . .
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso10646-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-10
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-13
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-14
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-15
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-3
> ....
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Then I changed .Xdefaults to
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> aterm*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> XTerm.font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> urxvt*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Next, I selected the font with xfontsel, and then started
> up an xterm
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> result: the font did not change
> Is something incorrect or out of order?
>
> matt.
>
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did you restart X after modifying Xdefaults?
this page
http://sgenomics.org/~jtang/blog/posts/Reloading_Xdefaults_without_restarting_X/
notes that
To reread your .Xresources file, and throw away your old resources, you
can type:
xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
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