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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

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Xdefaults and man page fonts

So I seem to have done something to mess up my bold terminal fonts... in man pages and dir listings they're all blocky under xterm... I've tried fixed and 6x10 settings...

I *think*, but am not sure, that this happens under wmi and not fluxbox...
For now I'll stick with aterm, but I'd still like to know what is doing this and I have a feeling it's an .Xdefaults setting, but aterm/xterm are identical....

blegh!

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Win

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Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 155

Re: Xdefaults and man page fonts

Hi phrakture.

Could you have modified the CONSOLEFONT variable in /etc/rc.conf (which sets the default console font)?

Regards,

Win

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Xdefaults and man page fonts

No, I did not.  It's not the font in the actual ttys, but in pseudo terminals... and only in xterm.

I checked and it DOES do this in fluxbox, so it's not a setting being fudged by the WM.
It's only the "bold" font attribute that is effected... it really looks like a totally different font... and this only happens in xterm, not in aterm

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oscar

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From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Re: Xdefaults and man page fonts

Since I'm a great fan of TTF and XFT, I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in every terminal I can find (ie, xterm and rxvt-unicode).
This is how I fixed my fonts:

XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=11
XTerm*boldFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold:size=11

(I can put my .Xdefaults somewhere, if you want to see more)

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