I want the default font of urxvt to be "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=17" (which works fine when I pass that to the -fn argument). I put the line URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=17 in ~/.Xdefaults as suggested from other resources online but doesn't seem to work. When typing urxvt still opens urxvt with its own default font. Am I missing something here ? TIA ===== ThanhVu H. Nguyen