Re: xt5250 on xterm with freetype support

Yes, but how to specify a tt font as a VT100 font for on-the-fly
switching via VT100 font menu (ctrl + rclick)?


Il lun, 2002-10-28 alle 17:15, Scott Klement ha scritto:
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> Instead of specifying -fa, you can set faceName in your .Xresources
> file (at least, it works on my copy of xterm, XFree86 4.2.0
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> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a corresponding escape
> sequence, so I can't make tn5250 send it to Xterm...
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> On 28 Oct 2002, Lapo Calamandrei wrote:
> >
> > newer xterm (form xfree 4.0.3 and above) has freetype support which let
> > you use trutype fonts with xft which renders nice antialiased fonts. To
> > use this features you need to have freetype2 lib and you need to compile
> > X with freetype support (btw, every distro do this now), after that you
> > have to invoke xterm using -fa [trutype font name] and not -fn [x font
> > name or alias] e.g. : xterm -fa 'Andale Mono'. I don't know how to
> > specify this in .Xresources, since this feature is not very well
> > documented atm.
> > The DECCOLM escape seq to swich between 80 and 132 mode works in
> > freetype mode, since it resize the term windows, but it doesn't change
> > the font. Also in ft mode, the vt fonts menu doesn't work (well., it
> > works, but it does nothing), please see my other posts in this thread.
> >
> > Greatings
> > Lapo
> >
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