Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour
On 2016-10-07, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
"Monospace" is likely to be an alias. Use the command 'fc-match
Monospace' to find out what real font is subsituted.
> 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
Run 'fc-match bollocks' or 'fc-match "utter bollocks"'. :) In both cases
you'll get the system-wide fallback font, which is DejaVuSans.ttf in my
case.
>
> How can I find what fonts I can actually use and what xterm calls them?
The command fc-list will give you a list of fonts known to fontconfig.
By default, only truetype fonts are considered.
>
> Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal?
As others have pointed out, yes.
>
> Mark
>
>
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Liam
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