From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:13:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17619 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17613 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with ESMTP id PAA13298 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:10:10 -0800 Received: from s5-25-199.student.washington.edu (S5-25-199.student.washington.edu [128.95.25.199]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id PAA05171 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <33257665.41C67EA6@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:12:37 -0800 From: Jason Wells Organization: Highperformance.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970215-GAMMA0 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fonts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems the mundane gives me more trouble than the extraordinary. How does one set display fonts for the commandline? How does one set display fonts for an xterm? I have tried to use "xterm -fn fontname" but it seems that none of the standard fonts can be found. X therefore always reverts to "fixed." This is way to small for use within a 1024 display. The fonts that are listed in my fontpath are all zipped. Do I need to unzip them? It seems that this should not be necessary. "xfd" will not display a single font for me. It says something about "unable to convert to type FontStruct." Any other font related general info or redirection to the correct resources would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason Wells