Bug#366086: xdm: Login widget fonts specified incorrectly in Xresources

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, May  5, 2006 at 01:03:20 +0100, Richard Thrippleton wrote:

> This could either be a bug in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources , or xdm itself. The
> resources named xlogin*Font and similar purport to set the fonts used in the
> login widget, but have no such effect. Changing the resource name to login*Font
> works.
> I think xdm used to honour xlogin*Font, based on functioning xdm setups on
> older machines I've seen, but it clearly no longer does - this may or may not
> be correct behaviour.
> 
Hi Richard, sorry for the late reply.

Can you still reproduce this with xdm from testing or unstable?

Looking at the code, I see:
greeter/greet.c:    static char *argv[] = { "xlogin", NULL };
greeter/greet.c:    dpy = XtOpenDisplay (context, d->name, "xlogin", "Xlogin", NULL, 0,
which suggests that the xlogin* resources ought to work.

Cheers,
Julien