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B-Con

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Registered: 2007-12-17

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Font naming schemes (mrxvt)

I'm trying to switch to mrxvt from XFCE-terminal. The big problem I have is setting the font. I have very little experience with fonts, basically they've just always been something to mess with until I found something that didn't hurt my eyes.

I'm lost as I'm trying to set a font in mrxvt. xlsfonts provides a great many fonts, few with any of the names I'm looking for, in an unfamiliar naming pattern, like (to pick at random) "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0"

- What is the format of the naming, and to what do all the numbers refer?
- I presume the size of the font is specified as part of the name?
- How do I access other fonts, like terminus, that don't appear in the output of xlsfonts?
- What are freetype fonts, and how can I view available ones?

While I'm not font-savvy, in XFCE-terminal I found Monospace size 8 appealing, at least the way gnome-settings-daemon made it look (partially because it wasn't very wide, I tend to dislike wide fonts). Likely, I'm looking for something as near to it as possible. (See below for screenshot example.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Monospace" actually just an alias/pointer for/to the default system monospace font? If so, how can I reference it in mrxvt?

Sorry for the plethora of questions, I'm just trying to figure everything out.

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Already 4th on Google for "terminus mrxvt" (without the quotes) after just 2.5 hours -- found this while doing some searching on the topic.

Last edited by B-Con (2008-11-09 02:33:06)

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