On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:59:41PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Where do you read that -fn is depcrecated? > > OK, deprecated is not realy the right word but: > > man xterm > > at the end of the OPTIONS section it is written:
oh - that's a very old comment. What it means is that xterm's source
contains explicit assignments for certain options which may be provided
directly in the X libraries by those names or by equivalent ones.
xterm's manpage refers to these particular options as obsolete:
%geom #geom -T -n -r -w
The options listed under this paragraph are not obsolete:
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments are
commonly used with xterm:
It corresponds to this paragraph from the X manpage (also more than
ten years old):
Most X programs attempt to use the same names for command
line options and arguments. All applications written with
the X Toolkit Intrinsics automatically accept the following
options:
>
> ----8<------------------------------------------------------------------
> The following command line arguments are provided for compatibil-
> ity with older versions. They may not be supported in the next
> release as the X Toolkit provides standard options that accom-
> plish the same task.
> <snip>
> -fn font
> This option specifies the font to be used for displaying
> normal text. The default is fixed.
>
> -font font
> This is the same as -fn.
> ----8<------------------------------------------------------------------
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