Re: [Pan-users] Re: old trouble : can't email -- SOLVED

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

walt wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:42:53 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:51:34 +0000, walt wrote:
> 
> Even that can be solved with a bit of twiddling.  xterm has an amazing
> number of useful flags -- useful enough that I actually read the man
> page :o)  There are two flags (at least) to do with fonts, -fn and -fs
> which mean font-name and font-size.  I always use -fn 9x15, which is
> confusing because 9x15 is actually the name of my favorite xterm font,
> not its size.  You may or may not have the 9x15 font, so a bit of daring
> may be needed to find what you like by trial and error.

Linus once posted this in the lkml (yeah, even Linus goes OT on occasion;-):

alias xterm="xterm -fa andale:size=11:charwidth=10"

Rinaldi
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