Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

[Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900
> >> Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> >> > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:00:33PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:  
> >> > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:  
> >> > > > >   
> >> > > 
> >
> > Also I just ran mutt in an X terminal instead by invoking xterm from 
> > Gnome-Terminal, and although the font is horrible and the window is too 
> > small, it does NOT display the same psychotic intermittent scrolling 
> > behaviour. 
> 
> [...] 
> 
> FWIW, you can tell xterm to use freetype fonts, e.g.,
> 
> 	xterm -fa "Monospace 12"
> 
> Alternatively, use the faceName resource in your ~/.Xresources file.
> 

Monospace 12 doesn't seem to exist on my system. In fact I haven't found 
what fonts I can use -- anything at all I put after xterm -fa results in 
the same thing -- an entirely usable, if a little bit large, xterm 
window with standard 80x24, which bahaves perfectly from the point of 
view of my original post.

As an example I am writing this mail in Mutt on such an xterm launched with :

xterm -fa bollocks

How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them?

Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal?

Mark