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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: what font is my xterm using?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.152139.29837@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:21:39 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
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- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:27:43 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Dec22.132743.9116@ericsson.se>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- References: <1992Dec17.222631.27524@physiol.su.OZ.AU>, <1992Dec21.002800.12889@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, <1992Dec22.124414.1080@cas.org>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- In article <1992Dec22.124414.1080@cas.org>
- lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- |> Isn't there an escape sequence one can use to set the font? A script could
- |> ask the user if they would like the shell to set things into an
- |> appropriate font for them...
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- The documented sequence ^[]50;$fontname^G works for me where ^[ is
- escape, $fontname is your shell script variable holding the name of the
- font and ^G is control G.
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- --
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- Michael Salmon
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