Bug#233707: xbase-clients: Cannot change font for xclock

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Hugo Haas <hugo@larve.net> writes:

> I have a very similar issue. I can change the background and
> foreground, but not the font:
>
>   xclock -digital -fg cyan -bg black -update 1 -geometry +0-0 -fn fixed
>
> All of those arguments are taken into account except the -fn one.
> Trying to set the font with Xresources doesn't work better.

I have found with some help from editres that it now only responds to
the face resource or the corresponding -fa flag (a change that seems
to be undocumented); on my desktop,

    XClock*face: fixed-9:width=semicondensed

yields the same font I got with "XClock*font: fixed" under 4.2.1.

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