xterm font issue

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Sun Feb 27 14:02:55 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:57 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit :
> > Hey Y'all,
> > 
> > When I start an xterm I get:
> > 
> > [mlapier at mushroom ATC]$ xterm
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> > xterm: cannot load font 
> > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
> 
> try:
> 
> xlsfonts | grep "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed" | grep 10646
> 
> And see what is the reply: no reply is: you don't have fonts!

...in which case you may need to install the xorg-x11-fonts-misc
package. This is what I need in order to use the non-default font sizes
from xterm.

--Greg




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