Setting fonts for Xterm from Xresources

sguazt marco.guazzone at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 12:13:51 UTC 2012


Hello,

I'm running Fedota 17 x86_64.

I have problems to set the font type to be used in XTerm from Xresources:
I edited my ~/.Xresources in order to set the font face (resource
"faceName") and size (resource "faceSize").
Here below is the output of "xrdb -query -all":
--- [out] ---
XTerm*background:       #ffffff
XTerm*color0:   #000000
XTerm*color1:   #a31515
XTerm*color10:  #fd9b43
XTerm*color11:  #00af00
XTerm*color12:  #335d85
XTerm*color14:  #389fa0
XTerm*color15:  #4daca3
XTerm*color2:   #1c9075
XTerm*color3:   #0000ff
XTerm*color4:   #008000
XTerm*color5:   #963c59
XTerm*color6:   #2b91af
XTerm*color7:   #00ff00
XTerm*color8:   #ff0000
XTerm*color9:   #d25f50
XTerm*faceName: "Inconsolata"
XTerm*faceSize: 12
XTerm*foreground:       #000000
XTerm*geometry: 80x24
XTerm*loginShell:       true
XTerm*renderFont:       true
XTerm*saveLines:        2000
XTerm*scrollBar:        false
XTerm*visualBell:       true
XTerm.color13:  #d53d7a
Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintmedium
Xft.rgba:       none
--- [/out] ---

As you can see, I specified the "Inconsolata" font for the resource
"faceName". However, XTerm seems to ignore it (yes, the font has been
installed from Fedora repo). I have also tried with other fonts, but I
obtain the same result.

If instead I specify the font from the command line (option "-fa"), it works.

Where am I wrong?

Thank you so much for your help.

Best,

-- Marco


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