[PlanetCCRMA] Fonts for terminals

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 25 08:00:02 2002


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:16:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    Sorry for such an unmusical question, but this is getting in the way of
> me doing music with a smile on my face. Under Redhat 7.3, how do I set a
> different font for xterm or Eterm? I understand I'm supposed to use the -F
> or --font option on the command line, but what are the names of fonts that
> are installed on RH? Where are they located on the system? Is there a single

Try gfontsel, select the font then click Apply to make the font name
appear at the top.

- Steve

PS X fonts have very long names