Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Reading ~/.Xdefaults is a backup measure for the cases where the user
> does not have a $HOME on the server.

Originally it was simply for settings which are specific to the client
rather than to the server (e.g. ~/.Xdefaults could contain filenames,
whereas having them in the xrdb database wouldn't make much sense).
Nowadays this would also make a lot of sense for font names since
fontconfig and friends handle fonts on the client side, so the server
can't know which fonts are avail to which clients.


        Stefan