Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250 on xterm with freetype support

["Erik Zetterberg" <erik_zetterberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I meant to add also that this should make font_80 and font_132 in the
tn5250rc work as intended.
Also of course substitute XTerm/xterm resource file with $HOME/.Xresources
at your leisure
/erikz

> Well, Hmmm... I'm afraid this is one of those things that has to be done in
> the XTerm resource file. Actually the font selections in the xterm resource
> file just point to font aliases.
>
> See for example
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/edcert/session3/x11/font.html for general info on
> administering fonts and
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/edcert/session3/x11/xterm.html for a brief
> description of fonts in xterm.
>
> The font link above says the following:
> ---
> Font Aliases
> Because the font names are so long, an alias mechanism for shortening font
> names is used. The file  fonts.alias in each font subdirectory contains the
> mapping between the font alias and the long font name. For example, a
> common
> fixed width font used in xterms is 10x20. 10x20 is the alias name. The file
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias shows the mapping:
> 10x20   "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1"
> ---
> 10x20 is of course the 'Huge' font in a normal xterm setup.
> Set up your own font directory, define your aliases in a fonts.alias file,
> substitute your aliases in the XTerm resource file (or just keep them but
> roll your own versions in the fonts.alias and then make X find yours first
> by the next point), prepend the directory to your fontpath in the xt5250
> script (xset +fp 'myfontpath') and you're ready to roll.
>
> http://rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html gives a comprehensive set of escape
> codes. Simple font switch only restricted to the set of fonts in the xterm
> resource font set alas, but window resizing, mouse events and advanced
> color
> set switching (for fonts look for 'OSC' in above and then 50)
>
> /erikz
>
>
> > Il gio, 2002-10-24 alle 21:09, Scott Klement ha scritto:
> > >
> > > Hmmm... This would be a really nice feature to add.
> > >
> > > Currently, we send an ascape sequence to the XTerm to change the font.
> > If
> > > you know what the escape sequence needs to be to use the freetype fonts
> > > instead of the original fonts, I could add that feature to the
> > emulator...
> > >
> > > I've searched the internet looking for it, but so far haven't found
> > > anything. :(
> > >
> >
> > I had the same results :-/
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 24 Oct 2002, Lapo Calamandrei wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any way to use xt5250 with xterm antialiased fonts (e.g.
> > xterm
> > > > -fa 'Andale Mono') without loosing the FONT_80 and FONT_132 feat.?
> > > > Editing the xt5250 script adding the -fa something to the xterm lauch
> > > > line you get aa font, but the font change when in 132/27 will not
> > work
> > > > anymore.
> > > >
> > > > Greatings
> > > > Lapo
> > > >
> > >
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