Re: xterm fonts
cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
> >
> > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
> > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
>
> Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you "deprecate"
> it in what is it .. lenny? Is this documented anywhere?
This happened years ago, and I believe you can blame upstream for it,
not FOSS. Nowadays, ~/.Xdefaults is often a symbolic link that points
to ~/.Xresources.
> > RXVTNEWSFONT='-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> > alias news='rxvt +sb -fn "$RXVTNEWSFONT" -geometry 136x56+37+21 -e ...
>
> Why keep things clean and simple and use an X resources file when it's
> a lot more fun making them messy & complicated, heh? I was talking of
It is clean and simple, and I do use ~/.Xresources where I have a
standard font defined that I want to use in terminals. slrn is an
exception to the rule.
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