Re: xterm question
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in
> > the stupid computer is ???above his head???..
>
> Thanks Chris for the vote of confidence.
> Since I've programmed in awk, several versions of basic (5?), C,
> Forth, fortran and Perl and debugged assembly and Pascal and
> built or repaired hundreds of processor boards, I don't really
> think anything to do with computers is beyond my reach.
>
> That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though
> I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't
> know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance:
> uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> I've looked at the man pages for xterm and uxterm and can see that
> '-fn' sets the font but have yet to find the explaination for the
> '-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' part of that line.
>
I got that from xfontsel. I'm not an expert, so there may be a better
way of describing the font.
I was away for a while and have some catching up to do. I'll try to
provide more info later (I have to dig for it).
(Sorry for the direct reply, Mike).
-Rob
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