Bug#600402: xterm: no longer respects *VT100.font setting

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Package: xterm
> Version: 264-1
>
> Hi,
>
> Just upgraded xterm from 261-1 to 264-1 and now the text on new
> xterms is unreadable.
>
> $ cd
> $ cat .xsession
> xrdb -merge $HOME/.config/Xdefaults
> exec xmonad
> $ cat .config/Xdefaults
> *VT100.font:	terminus-24
>
> xterms that are already open are still fine.  Downgrading to 261-1
> makes the problem go away again.
>
> Ideas?

no offhand - I just checked with

xterm-264 -xrm '*VT100.font:    terminus-24'

and got

xterm-264: cannot load font

but the display looks okay.  (I was away, and see that I have issues from 
#263/264 to resolve this evening).

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