On 2016-10-07, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@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 <mark2...@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 > > -- Liam
