Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-28 08:03:34, schrieb Deboo ^: > How do you set it up right? And what is the advantage of > .~/Xresources/ over ~/.Xresources file other than having separate host > files? In the directory ~/.Xresources/ you have the same files like in /etc/X11/app-defaults while in the file ~/.Xresource

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-31 03:06:13, schrieb Deboo ^: > On 5/25/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please see my project : > > > > > > > You have a wonderful project. Only if it was available in English ... Thanks or your comment.

Re: xterm fonts

Hello, sorry for my late answer but I was 10 days in hospital... Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^: > On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of > >the directory. ~/.Xresources/. > > You can load ~/.Xdefaul

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

ize very large, more than the > > > screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option > > > to a reasonable geometry size. > > > > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus > > I read thru the FAQ and did try many t

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

dded a xterm*geometry option > to a reasonable geometry size. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus I read thru the FAQ and did tried many things to make xterm fonts atleast as large as the terminus font on the console but whichever font I try it's not really g

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/25/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please see my project : You have a wonderful project. Only if it was available in English ... -- Regards, Deboo Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To U

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/26/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^: > On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of > >the directory. ~/.Xresources/. > > You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.X

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^: > On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of > >the directory. ~/.Xresources/. > > You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load > .~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~

Re: xterm fonts

On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:37 +0200 JWS wrote: > Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html > > (this uses ~/.Xresources). Using a unicode font in xterm this way appears to be working well, provided that you log in through a login m

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-23 09:19:35, schrieb Deboo ^: ??? On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ??? ??? >apt-cache show dfm ??? ??? Great. Thanks for the info. Works OOB! Perfect :-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-22 20:39:54, schrieb Mumia W..: ??? Ignore anyone who says that an ~/.Xresources/ directory has any ??? significance. This is bullshit, since ~/.Xresurces/ IS READ always. [ '/tmp/xfontsel.strace' ]-- 18707 14:25:31.582714 [] execve(

Re: xterm fonts

> > On 5/19/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my > > > .Xresources which over-ride the system defn's: > > > > > > XTerm*geometry:90x43 > > > [snip] > Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Trying this,

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and > then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the > screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option > to a reasonable geometry size. http://invisibl

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/23/2007 10:37 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P.S.: Can someone paste somewhere the default fluxbox config and provide a link in a reply post here? You might have to manually delete /etc/X11/fluxbox . Oh well, here is the default config: http://h

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it >several times and afte ra power failure, fluxbox worked with the > menus, now still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to >use another term. I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs a

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several times and afte ra power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to use another term. I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs and is a

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S.: Can someone paste somewhere the default fluxbox config and > provide a link in a reply post here? > You might have to manually delete /etc/X11/fluxbox . Oh well, here is the default config: http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/etc-

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/24/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I did was install xfonts-terminus via apt, and then opened the /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias file and added this to it: For some strange reason, after installing xfonts-terminus and using xfontsel, the maximum I am getting is 20. I ge

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > One more question is: how to get a font that is larger than 12x24? I > remember having seen a nice SUN console font that was quite big. I > want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger > fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/23/2007 06:11 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation. Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already purging f

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, JWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html (this uses ~/.Xresources). Regards, Jan Although nice for simple config but couldn't help me get back the xterm menus. It's again, interesting

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation. Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already purging fluxbox but reinstall did not seem to giv

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/22/2007 06:44 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/20/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're missing. > did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not e

Re: xterm fonts

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:55:47PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > What's better than fluxbox? I'd like to trash fluxbox and get > something that works OOB and is easily configurable and doesn't give > much headaches and atleast works if reinstalled, in case of > problems. I just went through this hea

Re: xterm fonts

Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html (this uses ~/.Xresources). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, > there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate > the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? > > Regards,

Re: xterm fonts

Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/07, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button >> (right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus. > Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if > it's possible. I

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? Regards, Deboo That's definitely strange. Something has been foo

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button (right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus. Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if it's possible. I have always used the Ctrl-left/middle/right

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I had real work to do, I just installed xfce4-terminal since I can configure everything from menus. While to install it brings in more libs than rxvt, when running it only uses a bit more and it has tabs that don't add to the memo

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: apt-cache show dfm Great. Thanks for the info. Works OOB! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/22/2007 06:49 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load .~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~/.Xresources but how do you load the ~/.Xresources/ directory? I made the directory but nothing changed since it did not load. Regards, Deboo Ignore anyone who says

Re: xterm fonts

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:49:31PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of > >the directory. ~/.Xresources/. > > You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load > .~/.Xdefaults o

Re: xterm fonts

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:44:51PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/20/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I > > > >I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're > >missing. > > > >> did I couldn

Re: xterm fonts

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:14:51AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I'm able to select bigger fonts using xfontsel but when putting them > in .Xresources or .Xdefaults, and doing and xrdb -load, and then > starting xterm or mrxvt with that font, xterm or mrxvt give an error > about not finding that font a

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/20/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I > > I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're > missing. > > > did I couldn't get back the fl

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of the directory. ~/.Xresources/. You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load .~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~/.Xresources but how do you load the ~/.Xresources/

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/20/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're missing. > did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not even after purging and > reinstalling fl

Re: xterm fonts

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:53:09AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:51:39AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > >> Also how to use the dektop icons that > > >> DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > > >> I already installed fbdesk but it > > >> seems of no use at all or is it > > >> buggy

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-18 01:06:41, schrieb s. keeling: > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv. This is not right since the two have different meanings. The file ~/.Xdefaults doea not exist but the FILES: ~/.Xdefaults- which set Xdefault set

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-18 22:06:13, schrieb Deboo ^: > Well I still do not understand. I was wonderign if he meant fribidi or > some such package ... to install fluxbox desktop icons easily ... apt-cache show dfm Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan

Re: xterm fonts

Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5/19/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my > > .Xresources which over-ride the system defn's: > > > > XTerm*geometry:90x43 > > [snip] > > Trying this, I lost the

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/19/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my .Xresources which over-ride the system defn's: XTerm*geometry:90x43 XTerm*SaveLines: 2000 XTerm*VT100*background:black XTerm*V

Re: xterm fonts

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:05:21PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: [..] > I've had the misfortune of having to herd (as in "clean up after") > nuclear physicists who didn't know what a directory was: as in "herding cats" .. I assume. >Me: "Dennis just reported that he's broken his codebase again and

Re: xterm fonts

cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > > > > .Xresources is used inst

Re: xterm fonts

Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5/18/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > mkdir ~/.Xresource > > ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system > > Also, how do you specify xterm options like bg and fg in these files > or the .Xdefaults file? I set it in the

Re: xterm fonts

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:51:39AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Also how to use the dektop icons that > >> DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > >> I already installed fbdesk but it > >> seems of no use at all or is it > >> buggy? > > > >ibid. > > > What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn

Re: xterm fonts

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:19:54PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > This happened years ago, and I believe you can blame upstream for it, > > not FOSS. Nowadays, ~/.Xdefaults is often a symbolic link that points > > to ~/.Xresources. > > Ah ..

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/18/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mkdir ~/.Xresource ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system echo "#include \"XTerm-system\"" >>~/.Xresources/XTerm echo ".Xterm*font: X" >>~/.Xresources/XTerm where X is something like: -misc-fix

Re: xterm fonts

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > > > > > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > > > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv. > > > > Interesting. .Xdefa

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/18/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ibid. > > What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such > thing with apt. $ dict ibid 1 definition found >From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: ibid. adv : in the same place (used when citing a

Re: xterm fonts

Am 2007-05-16 06:42:06, schrieb Deboo ^: > >xterm*font: 10x20 > Thanks. This works if I already open a new xterm from within an xterm > or any terminal emulator but not from the fluxbox right click XShells > --> xterm. mkdir ~/.Xresource ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-syst

Re: xterm fonts

cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > > > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv. > > Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you "deprecate" > it in what is it

Re: xterm fonts

Deboo ^ : > cga2000 : > > Deboo ^ : > > > And how do you incorporate the custom xterm options in the default > > > fluxbox menu? Is there something to edit the menu commands? > > > > I wish I knew .. :-) > > > > > Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with > > > fluxbox? I alread

Re: xterm fonts

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two > > > other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them > > > give

Re: xterm fonts

> Also how to use the dektop icons that > DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > I already installed fbdesk but it > seems of no use at all or is it > buggy? ibid. What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such thing with apt. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm sub

Re: xterm fonts

cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two > > other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them > > give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable > > fo

Re: xterm fonts

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with > fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. > But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able > to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the r

[Solved] Re: xterm fonts

On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However, some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the menu is not `xterm`. Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with differe

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: > > > >xterm*font: 10x20 > > > >Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my > >fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work > >so well for yo

Re: xterm fonts

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:42:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: > > > >xterm*font: 10x20 > > > >Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my > >fonts, but I don't sw

Re: xterm fonts

On 05/15/2007 08:12 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work so well for you. Thanks. This works if I

Re: xterm fonts

On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need

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I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need bigger fonts. How do you exactly specify big

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