Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-24 Thread Martti Kühne
Another option to find the font that I would apply for this class of problem is to grep through strace's output... But maybe I'm just too lazy to take the whole GUI magic too serious. cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-24 Thread Carlos Torres
the reason xfontsel and xlsfonts aren't that usefull anymore is because of Xft, and fontconfig, of which you should read all the manuals for. there are ways to use xlfd definitions with Xft though. and you can change which mono font you pick up with fontconfig too. --Carlos On Tue, Feb 24, 2015

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-24 Thread Greg Reagle
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 03:50 PM, Samuel Holland wrote: > fc-match mono That works. Thank you so much. I am familiar with the old commands xlsfonts and xfontsel, which, apparently, aren't relevant anymore. I guess X does fonts differently, not like when I learned the old commands years ago. I

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-24 Thread Samuel Holland
On February 24, 2015 10:10:53 AM CST, Greg Reagle wrote: >It's not the the xterm font, but I am just as happy with the font when >I >run "st -f mono" (I am running Xubuntu 14.04). Does anyone know how to >figure out specifically which font is being used in this case? Thanks. fc-match mono -- Re

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-24 Thread Greg Reagle
It's not the the xterm font, but I am just as happy with the font when I run "st -f mono" (I am running Xubuntu 14.04). Does anyone know how to figure out specifically which font is being used in this case? Thanks. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-23 Thread Nils Reuße
On 23.02.2015 17:48, Greg Reagle wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Vampyrah Broadcasting wrote: I want to use Xterms font in st. The Arch Wiki page about Xterm ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm ) says that xterm uses the font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-

Re: [dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-23 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Vampyrah Broadcasting wrote: > I want to use Xterms font in st. The Arch Wiki page about Xterm ( > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm ) says that xterm uses the > font > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-? > also abbrevated to 6

[dev] [st] can't use Xterm font

2015-02-21 Thread Vampyrah Broadcasting
Hello everybody, I want to use Xterms font in st. The Arch Wiki page about Xterm ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm ) says that xterm uses the font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-? also abbrevated to 6x13. I have verified that with xfontsel. My problem is t