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

[Rhialto]

On Mon 18 Feb 2008 at 20:09:02 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> Linus once posted this in the lkml (yeah, even Linus goes OT on occasion;-):
> 
> alias xterm="xterm -fa andale:size=11:charwidth=10"

I'm pretty sure one can set that permanently by putting something in
one's .Xresources file. The manual suggests a "faceName" resource.
(The X resources are a perfectly good way to specify detailed
preferences, yet GNOME and KDE don't seem to use it, afaik)

Aside, for whoever is unaware of it, this -fa option is using a
different font system than the earlier mentioned -fn option. The -fa
option concerns client-side, TrueType fonts, and the -fn option concerns
traditional, X-server-side fonts. The font names/specifications are also
quite different.

-Olaf.
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