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- From: x@springer.aux.apple.com (Steve Peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: fonts & stuff
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.012412.25759@times.aux.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:24:12 GMT
- References: <891@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <891@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, stump1+@pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell) writes:
- |>
- |> How does one go about changing the default fonts in MacX.
- |> Specifically xterm. I don't care for the rather large font that they
- |> default to, and I'd like something a little smaller and more managable.
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- Rather: How does one go about changing the default font that the *xterm client* employs
- (for all clients I know of, the client, *not* the X server drives the choice of fonts.)
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- Try, e.g.:
- xterm -fn 6x10
- or
- xterm -fn "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1"
- or learn about X resources, application default files, xrdb, ...
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- Steve Peters
- X Project Leader
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- peters@apple.com
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